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Congress dives into UFOs, but no signs of extraterrestrials
WASHINGTON — Congress held its first hearing in half a century Tuesday on unidentified flying objects. And no, there is…
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Could Life Use a Longer Genetic Code? Maybe, but It’s Unlikely
As wildly diverse as life on Earth is—whether it’s a jaguar hunting down a deer in the Amazon, an orchid…
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Scientists grow plants in lunar dirt, next stop moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s…
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How I Started to See Trees as Smart
A couple of decades ago, on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada, I was marching up a mountain solo…
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These Nanobots Can Swim Around a Wound and Kill Bacteria
Next, they proved that the bots could swim. In test tubes containing urea, the microbots reached speeds of up to…
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Most Great Barrier Reef coral studied this year was bleached
Australian government scientists say 91% of the Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed this year was bleached in the fourth mass…
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A Brain Chemical Helps Neurons Know When to Start a Movement
By washing through the brain, neuromodulators “allow you to govern the excitability of a large region of the brain more…
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Virus found in pig heart used in human transplant
Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a pig heart transplant have found the organ harbored…
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The Queen Conch’s Gambit
Archaeologists don’t know exactly how many Taíno survived the enslavement, massacres, and diseases that marked the following centuries—though genetic sampling…
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Climate change may increase risk of new infectious diseases
Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and it’s likely to…
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