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Ancient DNA unveils a previously unknown line of Neandertals

Neandertals traveled at least two evolutionary paths on their way to extinction around 40,000 years ago, a...

California droughts may help valley fever spread

Long dry spells can give a lethal fungal disease a lift. While California droughts can temporarily keep...

The Cost of Lightning

It was the terrible prospect of lightning one day striking the historic windmill that troubled Andrew Farrell....

Breadfruit Is Here to Save the World

Warming temperatures are making farming much more difficult in the tropics. Food systems across island nations in...

AI generates harsher punishments for people who use Black dialect

ChatGPT is a closet racist. Ask it and other artificial intelligence tools like it what they think...

A quantum computer corrected its own errors, improving its calculations 

For the first time, a quantum computer has improved its results by repeatedly fixing its own mistakes...

Billionaire Finally Launches on First Private Space-Walk Mission

One of the most ambitious space tourism missions in history has launched, with the all-commercial crew set...

Crispr-Enhanced Viruses Are Being Deployed Against UTIs

The global rise in antibiotic resistance is making bacterial infections harder to treat and increasing the risk...

How earthquakes build beefy gold nuggets

When strained by earthquakes, underground networks of quartz veins can generate enough voltage to snatch gold from...

Alien Spaceships Could Be Detected Using Gravitational Waves

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.How much do we really know...

The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Nearly a century ago, Edwin Hubble discovered that...

Why Polio Has Reemerged in Gaza

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.A 10-month-old boy in the Gaza...
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