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Insects a Prime Driver in Plant Evolution and Diversity
Take a good look around on your next nature hike. Not only are you experiencing the wonders of the...
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Human-Neandertal Mating Gets a New Date
A new study suggests that present-day Europeans share more genes with now-extinct Neandertals than do living Africans, at least...
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Curiosity Set to Scoop Sand Sample That Could Reveal Ancient Life
NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting ready to take its first scoop of Martian soil. The analysis of the soil...
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Watch Out Urbanites, Here Come the Carnivores
Raccoons, skunks, possums and certain other animals have long been city dwellers, but now larger wild carnivores are moving...
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Astronomers Discover Star Racing Around Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy
UCLA astronomers report the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the enormous black hole at the center of...
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Most Precise Measurement of Universe’s Expansion Achieved
The most precise measurement ever made of the speed of the universe’s expansion is in, thanks to NASA’s Spitzer...
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Skulls Engineered for Hard Knocks
The braincase of a skull may well be, as advertised, a strongly built and cleverly engineered structure, but listening...
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Life Abhors Arsenic, Even In Extremis
Another study casts doubt on the famous arsenic-life findings, showing the bacterium actually grabs phosphorus wherever it can be...
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Did Eating Meat Make Us Human?
Fragments of a 1.5-million-year-old skull from a child recently found in Tanzania suggest early hominids weren’t just occasional carnivores...
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How Dangerous Is Space Debris?
'Extremely' is the answer. Being hit by a 'sugar-cube' of space debris is the equivalent of standing next to...