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Stunning trilobite fossils include soft tissues never seen before

Paleontologists studying rocks from Morocco have unearthed the most exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils yet discovered. The new...

Calling gun violence a public health crisis is a ‘first step’ to fight it 

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

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ work left its mark on their skeletons

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones. Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’...

The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct

Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s...

NASA Desperately Needs New Spacesuits. Private Firms Are Struggling to Make Them

Almost exactly two years ago, as it prepared for the next generation of human spaceflight, NASA chose...

Aging Might Not Be Inevitable

In 1997, a French woman named Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122. She was the...

We may finally know the source of mysterious high-energy neutrinos

Supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies may be churning out a lot of the...

With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life

In 2021, AI research lab DeepMind announced the development of its first digital biology neural network, AlphaFold....

Air So Polluted It Can Kill Isn’t Being Taken Seriously Enough

In 2010, three months before her seventh birthday, Ella Roberta suddenly developed a chest infection and a...

Honeybees can “smell” lung cancer

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

Something weird is happening to Earth’s inner core

Something strange is happening at Earth’s center. Decades of earthquake data show that Earth’s inner core has...

Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business

Everybody poops, including astronauts. In fact, the first picture Neil Armstrong ever snapped from the surface of...
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