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‘Woolly mice’ were just a start. De-extinction still faces many hurdles

Scientists working to unlock the secrets of de-extinction recently announced what they say is a turning point...

Sperm Stem Cells Were Used for the First Time in an Attempt to Restore Fertility

Jaiwen Hsu was an active 11-year-old when he developed pain in his left knee that forced him...

‘Star Wars’ holds clues to making speedier spacecraft in the real world

Aaron Tremper is the editorial assistant for Science News Explores. He has a B.A. in English...

Physicists are mostly unconvinced by Microsoft’s new topological quantum chip

ANAHEIM, CALIF. — At the world’s largest gathering of physicists, a talk about Microsoft’s claimed new type of...

Elite athletes’ poop may hold clues to boosting metabolism

One of the keys to performing like an elite athlete — or at least having the...

Calls to restart nuclear weapons tests stir dismay and debate among scientists

When the countdown hit zero on September 23, 1992, the desert surface puffed up into the air,...

Hikaru Utada Would Rather Play CERN Than Coachella

Schrödinger’s cat, quantum entanglement—the songs on Hikaru Utada’s latest album, Science Fiction, go deeper into the singer-songwriter’s...

Surgeons transplanted a pig’s liver into a human

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

JWST spots the earliest sign yet of a distant galaxy reshaping its cosmic environs

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a distant galaxy blowing an unexpected bubble in the gas...

What 23andMe’s bankruptcy means for your genetic data

A genetic data giant is falling, and it’s unclear what will happen to millions of people’s most...

You might be reading your dog’s moods wrong

Many dog owners can tell how their precious pooch is feeling, watching it wag its tail or...

How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis

In the early 1920s, a trio of scientists sat down for a break at Rothamsted agricultural research...
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