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Fossil teeth push the human-Neandertal split back to about 1 million years ago

May 15 2019 2:00 PM

A study of fossilized teeth shifts the age of the last common ancestor between Neandertals and humans.

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China's lunar rover may have found minerals from the moon's mantle

May 15 2019 1:00 PM

The Chang'e-4 mission spotted material on the lunar surface that appears to contain bits originating from the moon's interior.

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Peacock spiders' superblack spots reflect just 0.5 percent of light

May 14 2019 7:05 PM

By manipulating light with tiny structures, patches on peacock spiders appear superblack, helping accentuate the arachnids' bright colors.

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AI can learn real-world skills from playing StarCraft and Minecraft

May 14 2019 12:07 PM

By playing StarCraft and Minecraft, artificial intelligence is learning how to collaborate and adapt.

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Tweaking one gene with CRISPR switched the way a snail shell spirals

May 14 2019 7:00 AM

The first gene-edited snails confirm which gene is responsible for the direction of the shell's spiral.

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Apollo-era moonquakes reveal that the moon may be tectonically active

May 13 2019 11:00 AM

Moonquakes recorded decades ago suggest the moon is tectonically active. Knowing more about that activity could help scientists identify where to land future spacecraft.

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A new AI acquired humanlike 'number sense' on its own
May 13 2019 7:00 AM

A new artificial intelligence seems to share our intuitive ability to estimate numbers at a glance.

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Deep-sea fishes' eye chemistry might let them see colors in near darkness
May 10 2019 3:02 PM

An unexpected abundance of proteins for catching dim light evolved independently in three groups of weird deep-sea fishes.

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News in Brief
Only a third of Earth's longest rivers still run free
May 10 2019 7:00 AM

Mapping millions of kilometers of waterways shows that just 37 percent of rivers longer than 1,000 kilometers remain unchained by human activities.

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Ancient South American populations dipped due to an erratic climate
May 09 2019 1:17 PM

Scientists link bouts of intense rainfall and drought around 8,600 to 6,000 years ago to declining numbers of South American hunter-gatherers.

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50 Years Ago
50 years ago, scientists tried to transplant part of a human eye
May 09 2019 7:00 AM

In 1969, a doctor tried and failed to restore a 54-year-old man's vision. Fifty years later, scientists are still struggling to make eye transplants work.

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A gut bacteria transplant may not help you lose weight
May 09 2019 12:05 AM

A small study finds that transplanting gut microbes from a lean person into obese people didn't lead to weight loss, as hoped.

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Dying stars called collapsars may forge much of the universe's gold
May 08 2019 1:02 PM

Spinning stars that collapse into black holes could help explain the origins of heavy elements such as gold and silver.

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What a nearby kilonova would look like
May 08 2019 9:16 AM

Physicists imagined what we'd see in the sky if two neutron stars collided just 1,000 light-years from Earth.

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1 million species are under threat. Here are 5 ways we speed up extinctions
May 08 2019 6:00 AM

One million of the world's plant and animal species are now under threat of extinction, a new report finds.

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The search for new geologic sources of lithium could power a clean future
May 07 2019 2:09 PM

Futuristic clean-energy visions of electric vehicles are driving the hunt for lithium.

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