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/ 5 months agoEarth’s last 3 years were its hottest on record
For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.Read More
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/ 5 months agoThis ancient pottery holds the earliest evidence of humans doing math
Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.Read More
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/ 5 months agoBotox could be used to fight snakebite
A study on rabbits dosed with viper venom suggests that botulinum toxin may alleviate some effects of snakebite, possibly by dampening...
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/ 5 months agoIn a new kind of plant trickery, this yam fools birds with fake berries
Black-bulb yam’s mimicry tricks birds into spreading its berrylike clones. The plant’s novel strategy helps it spread without seeds or sexual...
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/ 5 months agoQueen bumblebees are poor foragers thanks to sparse tongue hair
The density of fine hairs on bumblebees’ tongues determines how much nectar they can collect — and workers put queen bees...
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/ 5 months agoAmong chimpanzees, thrill-seeking peaks in toddlerhood
In humans, teens do the most dangerous things. In chimpanzees, that honor goes to toddlers. The difference may lie in caregiver...
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/ 5 months agoA newly spotted asteroid spins faster than any of its size ever seen
Among the first finds from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the discovery hints at a population of exceptionally strong asteroids.Read More
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/ 5 months agoAn all-female wasp is rapidly spreading across North America’s elms
The elm zigzag sawfly has spread to 15 states in five years. Now it’s attacking the tree that cities planted to...
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/ 5 months agoA double cosmic explosion could be the first known ‘superkilonova’
The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more...
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/ 5 months agoWhat science says about the Trump administration’s new vaccine schedule
The federal move to no longer recommend certain vaccines for all U.S. children is not supported by new evidence and could...



