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The return of the dire wolf after 10,000 years of extinction
A "de-extinction" company says it has revived the long-eradicated dire wolf species using a new gene-editing technology. The US start-up, Colossal...
theweek.com - 8 days ago
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These fluffy white wolves explain everything wrong with bringing back extinct animals
Don’t buy the hype about “de-extinction.” Let’s start with what should be obvious: The wolf pups are not dire wolves, and they haven’...
vox.com - 8 days ago
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Aging former research chimps move to Chimp Haven
Al and Kamaka, two old friends who are both in their 50s, are experiencing a whole new world. Part of what's novel: females. "Right off...
npr.org - 8 days ago
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Automation, AI, and Closed Systems in Cell and Gene Therapy Production
Pressure to make cell and gene therapies more affordable will force the industry to overcome its reticence and embrace closed production systems,...
genengnews.com - 8 days ago
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How AI could influence the evolution of humanity – podcast
Some of the leading brains behind generative AI have warned about the risk of artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity, if left unchecked. But...
theconversation.com - 8 days ago
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Chemotherapy Disrupts Brain Connectivity
New research reveals that chemotherapy can lead to rapid and widespread changes in brain connectivity in breast cancer patients. Using functional MRI...
neurosciencenews.com - 8 days ago
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Decoding Animal Minds Could Reveal the Purpose of Consciousness, Scientists Say
Early evolutionary pressures likely generated our shared, fundamental nature of mind. Zebrafish enjoy exploring new objects. Garter snakes know their own scents. Octopuses will seek...
popularmechanics.com - 8 days ago
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World’s Oldest Satellite Has Been in Space for 67 Years. Engineers Want to Bring It Home
A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age. An awkward-looking, spherical satellite the size...
gizmodo.com - 8 days ago
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Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies
Despite extensive work on the evolution of cooperation, the roles of teaching and leadership in transmitting opaque cultural norms—foundations of...
nature.com - 8 days ago
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Can we really resurrect extinct animals, or are we just creating hi-tech lookalikes?
From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the...
theconversation.com - 8 days ago
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Astronaut Captures Rare 'Sprite Lightning' From Space
Less than a month after scientists determined what causes the bizarre light show, too. NASA astronaut Don Pettit is known for snapping stunning space...
extremetech.com - 8 days ago
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U.S. human data repositories ‘under review’ for gender identity descriptors
Researchers associated with the repositories received an email from the U.S. National Institutes of Health in March noting that they must comply with...
thetransmitter.org - 8 days ago
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A company tried to bring back the dire wolf. Is it the start of 'Jurassic Park'?
A company owned by a wealthy businessman re-creates an extinct apex predator and lets it roam on a private ecological preserve. That’s no longer...
usatoday.com - 8 days ago
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Researcher proposes first- time model that replaces dark energy and dark matter in explaining nature of the universe
Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a...
phys.org - 8 days ago
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Aging former research chimps move to Chimp Haven
Al and Kamaka, two old friends who are both in their 50s, are experiencing a whole new world. Part of what's novel: females. "Right off...
kpbs.org - 8 days ago
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In Alabama, a Fight for the Spotted Salamander
As a private university expands its footprint and threatens the amphibian’s habitat, residents are voicing their opposition and searching for another...
insideclimatenews.org - 8 days ago
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Dugong numbers plummet amid seagrass decline in Thailand’s Andaman Sea
Unprecedented numbers of emaciated dugongs have washed up dead along Thailand’s Andaman Sea coast over the past three years, prompting marine...
mongabay.com - 8 days ago
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ATLAS gets under the hood of the Higgs mechanism
The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN in 2012 opened a new window on the innermost workings of the...
home.cern - 8 days ago
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Five deep changes urgently needed for a sustainable world and how to achieve them: UN report
Amid deepening inequalities and escalating crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, a new United Nations report presents a...
phys.org - 8 days ago
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How Ozempic and Similar Drugs Are Quietly Rewriting America’s Eating Habits
A recent survey reveals the foods that people are less likely to eat once they start taking GLP-1 medications like Ozempic. Research out this week...
gizmodo.com - 8 days ago
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An Endangered Tortoise Just Became a First- time Mom. She's 100 Years Old.
Her name is literally Mommy. A tortoise named Mommy just became the oldest first- time parent of her species at an estimated 100 years old. • The...
popularmechanics.com - 8 days ago
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Dissection of 130,000-Year-Old Baby Mammoth Reveals Glimpse Into Lost World
Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a...
sciencealert.com - 8 days ago
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A Construction Crew Was Renovating a Soccer Field—and Found the Bodies of 150 Ancient Roman Soldiers
“Everything points to the catastrophic end of a military operation.” Yikes. Renovations on a soccer field outside of Vienna, Austria, uncovered a Roman-era mass grave...
popularmechanics.com - 8 days ago
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World’s Most Detailed Brain Map Built From a Grain of Brain Tissue
Scientists have created the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, mapping every cell and synapse in a cubic millimeter of a...
neurosciencenews.com - 8 days ago
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But they’re not really dire wolves, are they?
and this isn't a conservation story...
zmescience.com - 9 days ago
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Saudi Arabia's vast desert was once a lush, green paradise
A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent. A new study of stalagmites...
nationalgeographic.com - 9 days ago
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Purple Isn’t Real, Science Says. Your Brain Is Just Making It Up.
You might say it’s just a pigment of your imagination The human eye does not actually see purple, as purple is not a color...
popularmechanics.com - 9 days ago
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Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers
New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas....
sciencenews.org - 9 days ago
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Who Falls for Fake News? Study Reveals Surprising Patterns
A global study of over 66,000 people reveals that susceptibility to misinformation varies across age, gender, education, and political ideology....
neurosciencenews.com - 9 days ago
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Quantum computing breakthrough could make 'noise' — forces that disrupt calculations — a thing of the past
Useful quantum networks are hobbled by the problem of decoherence from environmental "noise." But a new breakthrough could change that. Scientists...
livescience.com - 9 days ago
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Targeted Pancreatic Cancer Therapy Approach Tested in Two Patients, Resulting in Metastasis Shrinkage
Researchers at City of Hope have identified a new molecular target for treating pancreatic cancer and reported on a series of preclinical studies and...
genengnews.com - 9 days ago
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'Remarkable' ALS Drug May Also Work on Alzheimer's
A drug originally developed to treat a rare neurological disease that weakens nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord may also hold promise for...
newsweek.com - 9 days ago
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'It looked possessed' - sick sea lions attacking beachgoers in California
For 20 years, Rj LaMendola found peace while paddling in the water on his surfboard. But last month off the coast of Southern California, the ocean...
bbc.com - 9 days ago
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The ‘true face’ of Lucy, humanity’s most famous ancestor
The true face of the tiny primate “Lucy”, who proved that our early human relatives walked on two legs 3 million years ago, has been revealed....
aol.com - 9 days ago
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Pregnant ichthyosaur dug up 131 million years after she slammed into the seafloor
Palaeontologists have analysed the fossil of a complete 3.5m-long ichthyosaur which was preserved so well that it includes the animal’s last meal as...
cosmosmagazine.com - 9 days ago
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There Could Be Life on Titan, But Not Very Much
The search for life in our Solar System, however primitive, past or present has typically focussed upon Mars and a select few moons of the...
universetoday.com - 9 days ago
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First Potential Treatment Option for MS Found in Drug Tolebrutinib
A Cleveland Clinic-led clinical trial of tolebrutinib, an investigational oral Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor (a group of drugs originally...
genengnews.com - 9 days ago
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Aran Nayebi discusses a NeuroAI update to the Turing test
And he highlights the need to match neural representations across machines and organisms to build better autonomous agents....
thetransmitter.org - 9 days ago
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When marine biologists peered into this shark egg, they were utterly astonished by what they saw
The researchers documented the first confirmed case of identical twins in small spotted catsharks. Scientists in Albania have confirmed the first ever...
discoverwildlife.com - 9 days ago
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Brain Scans Reveal Political Leanings During Grocery Shopping
Researchers have discovered that people’s political affiliation can be identified with nearly 80% accuracy based on brain activity while making...
neurosciencenews.com - 9 days ago
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AI helps decode horses' body language for better veterinary care
Researchers are using AI to bridge the communication gap between horse and human. Combining 3D motion capture and machine learning, a new modeling...
phys.org - 9 days ago
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Ancient fossil sheds big light on evolution enigma, solving a 100-year arthropod mystery
For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it...
phys.org - 9 days ago
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How do birds fly in a V formation – without colliding?
Why do birds fly in a V formation - and how do they stay in one? Stuart Blackman explains the secrets of flight. A sky-full...
discoverwildlife.com - 9 days ago
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Seattle’s newest investment group aims to break down silos between angel investors, VCs, founders
Long time Seattle-area investor Brianna McDonald is leading a new organization called Ecosystem Venture Group that blends startup investment funds...
geekwire.com - 9 days ago
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Early Humans Likely Used Dugout Canoes to Travel the Open Sea 8,500 Years Ago
Learn how early humans made the 60-mile crossing from Europe to Malta, navigating at least partially by stars. Experts have added another skillset to...
discovermagazine.com - 9 days ago
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Firing the Scientists Who Make Working Safe Is Foolish
Black lung is a cruel disease. Incurable, it scars and hardens lungs, makes breathing hurt and leads to tuberculosis, heart disease and cancer. Still...
scientificamerican.com - 9 days ago
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'Hairy books' bound by medieval monks are covered in sealskin, study finds
A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse...
livescience.com - 9 days ago
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New gene editing tool shows promise for treating diseases with multiple mutations
Investigators have developed STITCHR, a new gene editing tool that can insert therapeutic genes into specific locations without causing unwanted...
sciencedaily.com - 9 days ago
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Cave discovery could rewrite 1,000 years of Mediterranean history
Hunter- gatherers in the region may have taken to the open seas before farming. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Evidence discovered in a cave...
popsci.com - 9 days ago
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We Might Be Able To Say Goodbye To Microplastics In Water With One Simple Trick
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Microplastics have quietly become one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our...
sciencing.com - 9 days ago
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