2025/08/butterfly-nebula.jpeg
08-29-2025
Butterfly Nebula may hold new clues to Earth’s origins
When you think about Earth’s building blocks, your mind probably...
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08-29-2025
Asteroid colors: Clues from the dawn of the solar system
Asteroids have been drifting through our solar system since long...
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08-29-2025
Skeleton is determined to be a 'hybrid child' of a human and Neanderthal interbreeding
A child’s skeleton, found nearly a century ago in Skhul...
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08-29-2025
How human hips evolved for walking on two legs
A new study traces how our hips changed so our...
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08-29-2025
Shark teeth may weaken as oceans become more acidic
Sharks are built to catch moving prey with speed and...
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08-29-2025
What orangutans can teach humans about food and fitness
Orangutans don’t count calories or track macros, yet they still...
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08-29-2025
How the global food trade drains water from poor communities
Water is on the move every day in the global...
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2025/08/cool-people_personalities_cross-cultural-traits_1m.jpg
08-29-2025
People who are considered 'cool' have these six things in common across all cultures
We throw the word “cool” around every day when describing...
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2025/08/Older-species-survive.jpg
08-28-2025
Why older species may be better survivors
Species don’t all carve out territory the same way. A...
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2025/08/Wheat-fertilizer-1.jpg
08-28-2025
Gene-edited wheat turns soil microbes into fertilizer
Scientists have engineered wheat to nudge soil bacteria into producing...
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2025/08/Farming-spread.jpg
08-28-2025
Ancient DNA shows what really spread the farming revolution
Farming spread across prehistoric Europe mostly because farming communities moved,...
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2025/08/Lemur-evolution.jpg
08-28-2025
Lemur evolution happened in waves, not a single burst
Lemurs didn’t spring from a single explosive radiation after reaching...
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