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Skyborne specks of life may influence rainfall patterns

Sprinklings of life appear key to the recipe for rain. Lofted flecks of organic material like bacteria,...

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Humans tend to put our own intelligence on...

Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels

This story originally appeared on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is part of the Climate...

Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs?

Across the African continent, the focus on disease has long been on infectious killers such as HIV...

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Is Tearing the MAHA Movement Apart

There are a lot of reasons to question President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Casey Means to...

Neandertals may have hunted in horse-trapping teams 200,000 years ago

Neandertals formed sophisticated hunting parties that drove wild horses into fatal traps around 200,000 years ago. At...

Chimp chatter is a lot more like human language than previously thought

Grunts, barks, screams and pants ring through Taï National Park in Cȏte d’Ivoire. Chimpanzees there combine these...

How to fight Lyme may lie in the biology of its disease-causing bacteria

Not all cell walls are created equal. Take the peculiar makeup of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium’s cell...

US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed to protect...

Putrid plants can reek of hot rotting flesh with one evolutionary trick

Some plants stink of rotting meat or dung, which helps them attract flies for pollination. How...

$1.8 billion in NIH grant cuts hit minority health research the hardest

The headlines keep coming: Another federal grant funding medical research terminated. Another lab devoted to mental health...

Teens who want to quit vaping have another medication option

Many teens who vape want to quit. A recent clinical trial suggests that a drug used to...
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