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Scientists reveal the face of a Neanderthal who lived 75,000 years ago

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Scientists reveal the face of a Neanderthal who lived 75,000 years ago

New York Times Science

Republicans Step Up Attacks on Scientist at Heart of Covid Lab Leak Theory

A heated hearing produced no new evidence that Peter Daszak or his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, were implicated in the Covid outbreak.

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New York Times Science

Republicans Step Up Attacks on Scientist at Heart of Covid Lab Leak Theory

New York Times Science

Mountain Goats Are Not Avalanche-Proof

The scene ends badly, as you might imagine.

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New York Times Science

Mountain Goats Are Not Avalanche-Proof

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Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far side of the moon

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Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far side of the moon

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James Webb Space Telescope forecasts clouds of melted rock on this blisteringly hot exoplanet

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James Webb Space Telescope forecasts clouds of melted rock on this blisteringly hot exoplanet

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Scientists explore how to improve crop yields - on Mars

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Scientists explore how to improve crop yields - on Mars

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A Switzerland-size hole opened in Antarctica's sea ice in 2016-17. Now we know why

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A Switzerland-size hole opened in Antarctica's sea ice in 2016-17. Now we know why

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AI Is Gathering a Growing Amount of Training Data Inside Virtual Worlds

To anyone living in a city where autonomous vehicles operate, it would seem they need a lot of practice. Robotaxis travel millions of miles a year on public roads in an effort to gather data from sensors—including cameras, radar, and lidar—to train the neural networks that operate them. In recent ...

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AI Is Gathering a Growing Amount of Training Data Inside Virtual Worlds

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Yellowstone Lake's weird resistance to climate change could be about to crack

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Yellowstone Lake's weird resistance to climate change could be about to crack

Science - The Verge

Costa Rica restored its forests and switched to renewable energy — what can the world learn from it?

Land in Indigenous territory in Costa Rica that Cabécar leaders have reclaimed and are working to reforest. | Justine Calma / The Verge The Verge takes you to Costa Rica to explore how it restored its forests and manages to get nearly 100 percent of its electricity from renewable ...

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Science - The Verge

Costa Rica restored its forests and switched to renewable energy — what can the world learn from it?

New York Times Science

What Makes a Society More Resilient? Frequent Hardship.

Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly from future shocks.

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New York Times Science

What Makes a Society More Resilient? Frequent Hardship.

National Science Foundation

Prolific potholes in the prairie star in award-winning short film

Most of us think potholes are something to avoid. However, some potholes are worth protecting. The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding researchers to study prairie pothole wetlands, which are ecologically and economically important, but under…

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National Science Foundation

Prolific potholes in the prairie star in award-winning short film

Science - The Verge

Silicon Valley is enamored with a company that pumps poop underground

Wastewater pipes at a reclamation plant in California on Wednesday, August 4, 2021. | Getty Images Big brands are paying startup Vaulted Deep $58.3 million to shoot poop and other organic waste products into underground wells as a way to fight climate change. The deal was brokered ...

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Science - The Verge

Silicon Valley is enamored with a company that pumps poop underground

New York Times Science

New Photo of Australia’s Sand-Swimming Northern Marsupial Mole

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.

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New Photo of Australia’s Sand-Swimming Northern Marsupial Mole

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Edward Dwight, Once Picked to Be the First Black Astronaut in Space, Aims for Space at Last

Six decades ago, Mr. Dwight’s shot at becoming the first Black astronaut in space was thwarted by racism and politics. Now, at 90, he’s finally going up.

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Edward Dwight, Once Picked to Be the First Black Astronaut in Space, Aims for Space at Last

WIRED Science

China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces

China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.

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WIRED Science

China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces

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Mind-Bending Math Could Stop Quantum Hackers—but Few Understand It

Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn’t a one-off glitch, but it happened all the time: Imagine the locks that secure our electronic data ...

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Mind-Bending Math Could Stop Quantum Hackers—but Few Understand It

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Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks

With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.

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New York Times Science

Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks

National Science Foundation

NSF and NIH partner on internship opportunity in biomedical engineering

The U.S. National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have initiated a joint research training opportunity through the NSF Non-Academic Research Internships…

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National Science Foundation

NSF and NIH partner on internship opportunity in biomedical engineering

Science - The Verge

Even Walmart thinks American healthcare is too expensive

Image: Getty Images Walmart isn’t making enough money off its new health centers, so it decided to close up shop. The retail giant announced today that it’ll shutter all 51 health centers it opened up across five states since 2019. Walmart is also getting rid of its virtual ...

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Science - The Verge

Even Walmart thinks American healthcare is too expensive

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Scientists Find a Surprising Way to Transform A and B Blood Types Into Universal Blood

Blood transfusions save lives. In the US alone, people receive around 10 million units each year. But blood banks are always short in supply—especially when it comes to the “universal donor” type O. Surprisingly, the gut microbiome may hold a solution for boosting universal blood supplies by chemically ...

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Scientists Find a Surprising Way to Transform A and B Blood Types Into Universal Blood

WIRED Science

The Uncomfortable Truth About the UK’s Climate Policies

Britain’s former climate adviser says the country’s future plans are weak, climate protests are no longer helpful, and working closely with Big Oil is a jarring necessity.

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WIRED Science

The Uncomfortable Truth About the UK’s Climate Policies

Science - The Verge

A new intergovernmental group will try to stem abuses tied to critical mineral mining

Trucks haul away ore from a pit in one of the largest copper and cobalt mines in the world in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on June 17th, 2023. | Photo: Getty Images The United Nations launched a new panel to craft mining guidelines for critical minerals in high ...

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Science - The Verge

A new intergovernmental group will try to stem abuses tied to critical mineral mining

Science - The Verge

Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased

Image: Razer Razer will have to fork over $1.1 million in refunds to customers who purchased its RGB-clad Zephyr face mask, according to a proposed settlement announced by the Federal Trade Commission on Monday. The company claimed the face mask used N95-grade filters, but the ...

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Science - The Verge

Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased