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New Microbe Forms Living, Deep-Sea Power Cables
The world’s deep seafloors are dark and airless places, but vast swaths may pulse gently with energy conducted through...
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Grandmothers Responsible for Human Longevity
The helpfulness of grandmothers is the reason humans don’t die in their thirties the way chimpanzees do, new research...
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Gene Genesis: Scientists Observe New Genes Evolving from Mutated Copies
Researchers have observed in an experiment the exact steps bacterial genes take to evolve a new ability, unexpectedly adding...
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Fish Can Cloak, Become Invisible to Predators
Silver-colored fish, such as herring, sardines and sprat, are bending the laws of physics, according to a new study...
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Ancient DNA Sheds Light on Arctic Whale Mysteries
Scientists have published the first range-wide genetic analysis of the bowhead whale using hundreds of samples from both modern...
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Genes and Immune System Shaped By Childhood Poverty, Stress
A University of British Columbia and Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics study has revealed that childhood poverty, stress...
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Evolution Mostly Driven By Brawn, Not Brains
The most common measure of intelligence in animals, brain size relative to body size, may not be as dependent...
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Forrest Corridor Could Save Endangered Species From Decline
Sumatran orangutans are in trouble: Only about 6,600 of the animals are left, scattered throughout the northern tip of...
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How First Life Forms Might Have Packaged RNA
Researchers at Penn State University have developed a chemical model that mimics a possible step in the formation of...
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Fly Genomes Show Natural Selection
When ancestral humans walked out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago, Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies came along...