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August 18, 2022
Although Betelgeuse is currently a red giant star, astronomers millennia ago reported it as yellow Read more
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July 10, 2025
Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing possibilities to scientists Read more
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May 16, 2012
Today's mega forest fires of the southwestern US are truly unusual and exceptional in the long-term record, suggests an unprecedented study that examined 1,500 years of ancient tree ring and fire data from two distinct climate periods. Researchers constructed and analyzed a statistical model and found that today's dry, hot climate combined with the past century of human fire suppression is causing megafires, said study co-author and fire anthropologist Christopher Roos, Southern Methodist… Read more
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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. Read more
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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 Read more
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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. Read more
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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 Read more
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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. Read more
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April 16, 2012
Fossil footprints and bones suggest variations among human ancestors in upright gait and stance. Read more
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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. Read more
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