2024-05-18 |
Horses buried alive in medieval funerals came from distant lands |
Andrew Curry |
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2024-05-18 |
Keto diet may cause organ damage, mouse study finds |
Mitch Leslie |
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2024-05-17 |
Researchers reflect on the death of billionaire science donor Jim Simons and his charitable impact |
Madeline Reinsel |
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2024-05-17 |
No humans needed: AI robots discover new laser materials on their own |
Robert F. Service |
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2024-05-17 |
Tool use keeps these adorable otters out of the dentist’s chair |
Phie Jacobs |
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2024-05-17 |
An inflamed brain can trigger psychosis. The search is on for patients who might be cured |
Richard Stone |
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2024-05-17 |
News at a glance: Solar storm stuns, COVID-19 vaccine withdrawn, and fossils return to Brazil |
Science News Staff |
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2024-05-16 |
Federal officials suspend funding to EcoHealth Alliance, nonprofit entangled in COVID-19 origin debate |
Jocelyn Kaiser |
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2024-05-16 |
Human ancestors may have hunted cave bears 300,000 years ago |
Andrew Curry |
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2024-05-16 |
Limits on access to DeepMind’s new protein program trigger backlash |
Catherine Offord |
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2024-05-16 |
Spending cuts imperil Argentina’s ambitious nuclear research programs |
María de los Ángeles Orfila |
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2024-05-16 |
Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites |
Sofia Moutinho |
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2024-05-16 |
Watch a lizard-inspired building shed parts to escape catastrophe |
Phie Jacobs |
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2024-05-15 |
LGBTQ Ph.D. graduates will soon be counted in key U.S. survey |
Katie Langin |
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2024-05-15 |
Why are elite athletes prone to abnormal heart rhythms? |
Jennifer Couzin-Frankel |
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2024-05-14 |
Extreme solar storm generated aurorae—and ‘surprise’ |
Michael Greshko |
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2024-05-14 |
Amid Haiti’s escalating chaos, a ‘heroic network’ keeps medical research running |
Meredith Wadman |
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2024-05-14 |
Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey |
Kermit Pattison |
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2024-05-11 |
The U.S. wants to change how researchers get access to a huge trove of health data. Many don’t like the idea |
Meredith Wadman |
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2024-05-11 |
A scientist asked to join the U.K. House of Lords—and got in |
Cathleen O’Grady |
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2024-05-10 |
NSF halts South Pole megaproject to probe infant cosmos’ growth spurt |
Adrian Cho |
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2024-05-10 |
News at a glance: Ocean heat waves, cultivated meat, and drug stockpile blues |
Science News Staff |
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2024-05-10 |
Elephants know their audience. Watch them greet one another in the wild |
Madeline Reinsel |
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2024-05-09 |
Psychology study participants recruited online may provide nonsensical answers |
Cathleen O’Grady |
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2024-05-09 |
New U.S. AI network aims to make supercomputers available to more researchers |
Jeffrey Mervis |
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2024-05-09 |
Es probable que una científica gane la presidencia de México. No todos los investigadores están alegres |
Rodrigo Pérez Ortega |
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2024-05-09 |
Brazil’s plan to lure 1000 expat scientists back home faces criticism |
Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade |
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2024-05-09 |
Global effort aims to protect health and safety of human ‘guinea pigs’ in drug trials |
Martin Enserink |
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2024-05-09 |
Meet the smallest animal known to spread seeds with its poop |
Gennaro Tomma |
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2024-05-09 |
Powerful new AI software maps virtually any protein interaction in minutes |
Robert F. Service |
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2024-05-08 |
‘Unqualified failure’ in polio vaccine policy left thousands of kids paralyzed |
Leslie Roberts |
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2024-05-08 |
Parasites in these 200 old cans of salmon may spell good news for marine food webs |
Ashley Stimpson |
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2024-05-08 |
White House overhauls rules for risky pathogen studies |
Jocelyn Kaiser |
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2024-05-08 |
Could a newly discovered sperm whale ‘alphabet’ be deciphered by humans? |
Warren Cornwall |
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2024-05-07 |
To combat cow flu outbreak, scientists plan to infect cattle with influenza in high-security labs |
Kai Kupferschmidt |
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2024-05-07 |
Australia bets big on dark horse quantum computing technology |
Adrian Cho |
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2024-05-07 |
Deadly Pacific ‘blobs’ tied to emission cuts in China |
Warren Cornwall |
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2024-05-07 |
New animal dads often kill their stepchildren. These parrots adopt them instead |
Virginia Morell |
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2024-05-07 |
Hellish Venus may have lost its water quickly |
Jonathan O’Callaghan |
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2024-05-04 |
The U.S. has a new way to mask census data in the name of privacy. How does it affect accuracy? |
Jeffrey Mervis |
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2024-05-04 |
What a Philippine court ruling means for transgenic Golden Rice, once hailed as a dietary breakthrough |
Dennis Normile |
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2024-05-04 |
Questionable firms tempt young doctors with ‘easy’ publications |
Frederik Joelving, Retraction Watch |
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2024-05-04 |
In medieval England, leprosy bounced between humans and squirrels |
Sean Cummings |
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2024-05-03 |
News at a glance: Infrared telescope debuts, GM rice stumbles, and maternal mortality drops |
Science News Staff |
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2024-05-03 |
Cheap catalyst could help turn carbon dioxide into fuels |
Robert F. Service |
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2024-05-03 |
Orangutan plays doctor, heals himself |
Kermit Pattison |
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2024-05-03 |
A scientist is likely to win Mexico’s presidency. Not all researchers are rejoicing |
Rodrigo Pérez Ortega |
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2024-05-02 |
House lawmakers on both sides grill head of nonprofit that worked with Chinese virologists |
Jocelyn Kaiser |
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2024-05-02 |
U.S. moves to reclassify cannabis as a lower risk drug |
Phie Jacobs |
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2024-05-02 |
Scientists call new measures to control bird flu in cows ‘a drop in the bucket’ |
Jon CohenMartin Enserink |
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2024-05-02 |
Steel industry emissions are a big contributor to climate change. Can it go green? |
Warren Cornwall |
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2024-05-02 |
Nobel-winning neuroscientist faces scrutiny for data discrepancies in more than a dozen papers |
Holly Else |
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2024-05-01 |
‘Daredevil’ running could help astronauts maintain muscles in low gravity |
Darren Incorvaia |
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2024-05-01 |
Intricate leaf veins may be an ancient protection against hungry insects |
Elizabeth Pennisi |
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2024-05-01 |
Ancient crystals suggest early Earth had land and freshwater |
Elise Cutts |
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2024-05-01 |
Major budget cuts to two high-profile NIH efforts leave researchers reeling |
Jocelyn Kaiser |
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2024-04-30 |
Climate modelers grapple with their own carbon emissions |
Paul Voosen |
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2024-04-30 |
Which wild animals carry the COVID-19 virus? An ambitious U.S. project aims to find out |
Jon Cohen |
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2024-04-27 |
All dog noses—whether a pug’s or a bloodhound’s—are created equal |
Madeline Reinsel |
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2024-04-27 |
What’s in your food? A new research effort intends to find out |
Richard Schiffman |
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2024-04-27 |
Injectable antibody drug protects children from malaria in Mali trial |
Catherine Offord |
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2024-04-26 |
What is a presumed sign of life doing on a dead comet? |
Elise Cutts |
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2024-04-26 |
AI transcription tools ‘hallucinate,’ too |
Ananya_ |
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2024-04-26 |
Where do elbows and knees come from? Biologists track them back to our boneless, sharklike ancestors |
Elizabeth Pennisi |
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2024-04-26 |
The U.S. government is taking action to stop ‘cow flu.’ Is it too little, too late? |
Jon Cohen |
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2024-04-26 |
Traffic noise causes lifelong harm to baby birds |
Erik Stokstad |
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2024-04-26 |
News at a glance: Plants’ tree of life, conserving U.S. federal lands, and entertaining invertebrate sentience |
Science News Staff |
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2024-04-26 |
A gene mutation turned these fish into intrepid explorers |
Elizabeth Pennisi |
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2024-04-26 |
Can science find ways to ease loneliness? |
rbanffy |
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2024-04-25 |
Diamonds grown without extreme pressures |
Robert F. Service |
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2024-04-25 |
Scientists repot flowering plants’ tree of life—and find it has tangled roots |
Elizabeth Pennisi |
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2024-04-25 |
China set to fetch first rocks from mysterious far side of the Moon |
rbanffy |
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2024-04-24 |
Massive DNA study reveals mating customs of mysterious medieval horse riders |
Andrew Curry |
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2024-04-24 |
Sea creatures began to glow half a billion years ago |
Phie Jacobs |
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2024-04-24 |
NIH boosts pay for postdocs and graduate students |
Katie Langin |
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2024-04-24 |
U.K. visa changes imperil recruitment of scientific talent, policy experts warn |
Cathleen O’Grady |
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2024-04-23 |
Oldest ever ice offers glimpse of Earth before the ice ages |
rbanffy |
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2024-04-23 |
Bird flu in Texas: many human cases, no certainty about human to human spread? |
leashless |
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2024-04-22 |
Forced to eat bat feces, chimps could spread deadly viruses to humans |
Ann Gibbons |
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2024-04-20 |
Africa intensifies battle against mpox as ‘alarming’ outbreaks continue |
Jon Cohen |
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2024-04-20 |
Where did Earth’s oddball ‘quasi-moon’ come from? Scientists pinpoint famed lunar crater |
Daniel Clery |
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2024-04-19 |
Anonymizing research funding applications could reduce ‘prestige privilege’ |
Phie Jacobs |
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2024-04-19 |
Controversial wolf killing appears to help caribou, but concerns persist |
Warren Cornwall |
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2024-04-19 |
News at a glance: Global coral bleaching, preventing ship strikes on whales, and detecting prostate cancer |
Science News Staff |
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2024-04-19 |
Bacteria found in mosquito guts could help scientists fight dengue, Zika |
Catherine Offord |
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2024-04-18 |
Daring ‘James Bond’ mission to drill Antarctic ice cores could reveal future of sea level rise |
Christian Elliott |
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2024-04-18 |
Charred bones are signs of Maya ritual to erase past rulers |
Rodrigo Pérez Ortega |
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2024-04-18 |
Striking Amazonian butterfly is result of ancient hybrid event |
Sean Cummings |
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2024-04-17 |
New Initiative Aims to Bolster Funding for Scientists in War-Torn Ukraine, Science |
Foundation News ‧ Thomas Sumner |
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2024-04-17 |
Should researchers use AI to write papers? Group aims for community-driven standards |
Holly Else |
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2024-04-17 |
Plans to expand African vaccine production face steep hurdles |
Jon Cohen |
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2024-04-17 |
Young toads are teaching Australian lizards to avoid deadly snacks |
Elizabeth Pennisi |
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2024-04-16 |
Giant planets ran amok soon after Solar System’s birth |
Paul Voosen |
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2024-04-16 |
Researchers need ‘open’ bibliographic databases, new declaration says |
Catherine Offord |
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2024-04-16 |
Amid budget crunch, NASA seeks Hail Mary on Mars Sample Return |
Michael Greshko |
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2024-04-16 |
People with complicated pregnancies may suffer health problems, die early |
Jennifer Couzin-Frankel |
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2024-04-15 |
Deadly marine ‘cold spells’ could become more frequent with climate change, scientists warn |
Warren Cornwall |
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2024-04-13 |
Hiring ban disrupts research at Florida universities |
Jeffrey Mervis |
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2024-04-13 |
Brightest gamma ray burst of all time emerged from collapsing star |
Daniel Clery |
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2024-04-12 |
Bonobos, the ‘hippie chimps,’ might not be so mellow after all |
Phie Jacobs |
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