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To regenerate a head, you first have to know where your tail is
Before a critical point in development, the animals failed to close the wound made by…
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Rover finds hints of an ancient Martian carbon cycle
The Curiosity mission started near the bottom of the crater, at the base of a…
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Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends
For their study, Gaby et al. organized an on-campus "Speed-Friending" event for 40 female volunteers,…
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Trump admin accused of censoring NIH’s top expert on ultra-processed foods
Hall claims that because of this, aides for Kennedy blocked him from being directly interviewed…
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US Interior secretary orders offshore wind project shut down
It's notable that this hold comes despite Trump's executive order explicitly stating, "Nothing in this…
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Skepticism greets claims of a possible biosignature on a distant world
The new paper follows up on a tantalizing hint raised by earlier work: the possible…
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Climate change will make rice toxic, say researchers
For six years, Ziska and a large team of research colleagues in China and the…
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RoboBee sticks the landing – Ars Technica
The RoboBee is only slightly larger than a penny. Credit: Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory The first…
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Looking at the Universe’s dark ages from the far side of the Moon
Second, there was a time, within the first few hundred million years after the Big…
The physics of bowling strike after strike
More than 45 million people in the US are fans of bowling, with national competitions…