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Living ‘Bee Fences’ Protect Farmers from Elephants, and Vice Versa
In the African bush in southern Kenya, Lucy King watched an elephant nicknamed Mohican rest under an acacia tree, seemingly…
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The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’
Imagine the human genome as a string stretching out for the length of a football field, with all the genes…
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Even Mild Cases of COVID May Leave a Mark on the Brain
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. With more than 18…
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How our ape ancestors suddenly lost their tails 25 million years ago
By Michael Le Page A wild chimpanzee walking through a forest Shutterstock / Alexwilko Around 25 million years ago, our…
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 15: Booster Shot Approvals—plus Vaccines for Kids?
Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to COVID, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update…
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Fungi Might Have Helped Drag the Planet Out of its ‘Snowball Earth’ Phase
The drop stones in the tropical rocks were among the first clues that something strange once happened to planet Earth. Drop…
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Covid-19 news: UK male life expectancy sees first drop in 40 years
By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan ,…
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Simple make-up tips can help you avoid face recognition software
By Chris Stokel-Walker A symbolic representation of the power of face recognition tools Jochen Tack / Alamy Face recognition algorithms…
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Could the Moon Actually Crash Toward Earth?
With a push in the opposite direction, the angular momentum decreases. This means that the overall rotation rate gets smaller.…
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How the James Webb Space Telescope Works
Our knowledge of the universe is bound by the scope of our senses, but our minds know no such limits.…
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