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Ancient rocks reveal when rivers began pouring nutrients into the sea

Rivers may have operated on a global scale around 3.5 billion years ago. The new find comes...

Wild baboons don’t recognize themselves in a mirror

Self-awareness may be beyond primates in the wild. Chimps, organutans and other species faced with a mirror...

Scratching an itch is so good, and so bad

Scratching an itch can bring a contradictory wave of pleasure and misery. A mouse study on scratching,...

A tiny neutrino detector scored big at a nuclear reactor

A tiny neutrino detector has found its footing in a fresh setting — at a nuclear reactor. ...

Feeding sharks ‘junk food’ takes a toll on their health

In general, sharks have a reputation as swimming garbage cans that unflinchingly dine on whatever they can...

Washington, DC, Plane Crash: Everything We Know So Far

Investigators are scrambling to figure out why a military helicopter and a passenger airplane collided and plunged...

Better male birth control is on the horizon

In 1960, a new drug revolutionized society from the bedroom to the streets. The introduction of a...

Trump’s Plan for Elon Musk to Bring the ‘Stranded’ Astronauts Home ASAP Is a Headache for NASA

For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site...

Trump orders sow chaos in global public health 

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

Federal Spending Freeze Threatens Ecosystems and Public Safety

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

Here’s how ancient Amazonians became master maize farmers

Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming....

Life’s ingredients have been found in samples from asteroid Bennu

Underground pools of liquid brine probably formed 4.6 billion years ago on the parent body of...
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