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A clay figurine unveils a storytelling shift from 12,000 years ago

A roughly 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel has unveiled a surprisingly ancient turning point in...

A wolf raided a crab trap. Was it tool use or just canine cunning?

One damp spring evening last year, a wolf hauled a crab trap ashore off the central Pacific...

This parasitic ant tricks workers into committing matricide

Overtaking a throne sometimes takes a touch of matricide.  Some newly mated ant queens sneak into other...

A Collision With Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit

Wrapping up 204 days in orbit, three Chinese astronauts flew back to Earth aboard a Shenzhou spacecraft...

Life-saving research on extreme heat comes under fire

Located just a few hours’ drive from the Canadian border, Missoula, Mont. is not known for sweltering...

How Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Grow Living Things

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Sip a glass of wine, and you will...

An Invasive Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Spread to the Rocky Mountains

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.It can...

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived

On Election Day, Peter Hubbard was one of two Democratic candidates who took a decisive—and surprising—victory in...

Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound Is Being Tested as a Treatment for Long Covid

Obesity wonder drugs Wegovy and Zepbound are already showing that they can reduce the risk of cardiovascular...

40,000-year-old woolly mammoth RNA offers a peek into its last moments

Meghan Rosen is a senior writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

Can a Hydroelectric Dam Really Make the Days Longer?

How many times have you said, “I wish the days were longer”? Well, NASA scientists say the...

Deep-sea mining might feed plankton a diet of junk food

Mining the seafloor for valuable metals could send dangerous ripples through ocean food webs. Tiny floating plankton,...
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