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February 23, 2024
Traits that help trees live for hundreds of years also foster forest life, one reason why old growth forest conservation is crucial.
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July 19, 2023
Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian
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February 16, 2024
A retrovirus embedded in the DNA of some vertebrates helps turn on production of a protein needed to insulate nerve cells, aiding speedy thoughts.
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August 29, 2024
From glacial ice cores extracted from the Tibetan Plateau, scientists recovered the equivalent of 1,705 viral species. Reading their genomes tells the story of 41,000 years of climate change
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May 4, 2012
Georgia Tech assistant professor Josef Dufek's new findings provide more evidence that early Mars was saturated with water and that its atmosphere was considerably thicker, at least 20 times more dense, than it is today.
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April 16, 2012
Fossil footprints and bones suggest variations among human ancestors in upright gait and stance.
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March 22, 2012
Beluga whales and narwhals live solely in the cold waters of the Arctic and sub-arctic. Smithsonian scientists, however, found that this may not have always been the case. They recently described a new species of toothed whale and close relative to today's belugas and narwhals that lived some 3-4 million years ago during the Pliocene in warm water regions. Why and when its modern-day relatives evolved to live only in northern latitudes remains a mystery.
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June 15, 2022
A medieval cemetery yields DNA evidence of the deadly pandemic bacterium’s Central Asian ancestor
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May 2, 2022
A change in gemstone composition starting about 3.8 billion years ago may offer the earliest record of one tectonic plate sliding over another.
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June 7, 2022
Analyzing zircons’ chemical makeup can help expose intense quakes from the past and improve our understanding of the physics of today’s tremors.
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