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Bats wearing tiny mics reveal how the fliers avoid rush hour collisions
The first bat-wearable microphone is helping biologists study the bats’ good safety record at avoiding collisions in rush hour air.…
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Snakes are often the villains. A new book gives them a fair shake
SlitherStephen S. HallGrand Central Publishing, $30 Snakes don’t often get to be the protagonists. From the biblical tempter in the…
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Driving the CAR to fight acute myeloid leukemia
One main goal of anti-cancer therapies is to kill tumor cells without affecting the surrounding normal cells. Therefore, many drugs…
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Dad’s backyard lessons inspired this hearing scientist to learn
biology: The study of living things. The scientists who study them are known as biologists. biomedical: Having to do with…
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Denisovans inhabited Taiwan, new fossil evidence suggests
A fossil jaw originally netted by fishermen off the ocean floor near Taiwan’s west coast belonged to a member of…
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The face of humans’ most influential ancestor, Lucy, gets a facelift
Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic…
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Biological sex is more complex than just male or female
advocacy: Work performed to support some cause, idea or program. People who do this work are known as advocates. For…
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Ancient tools from a South African cave reveal connections between prehistoric people
In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created…
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RFK Jr. Hits His Stride in Arizona as His Chronic Disease Tour Wraps
The sun was bursting through the sandstone arch of Window Rock in northeastern Arizona, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…
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Pink Moon 2025: April’s full ‘Paschal Moon’ rises this weekend and sets the stage for Easter
On Saturday, April 12, look east at dusk to see the next full moon rise into the sky: the “Pink…
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