A long-lost dragon lizard returns

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06/14/2020 The way the coronavirus messes with smell hints at how it affects the brain One thing is certain so far: The virus can steal the sense of smell in a way that’s not normal. Read More Clues to the earliest known bow-and-arrow hunting outside Africa have been found Possible arrowheads at a rainforest site in Sri Lanka date to 48,000 years ago. Read More Fossil footprints show some crocodile ancestors walked on two legs The 106-million-year-old tracks suggest that other puzzling nearby fossils were also likely made by a bipedal croc ancestor, not a giant pterosaur. Read More A critically ill COVID-19 patient just got a double lung transplant It’s reportedly the first time a coronavirus patient has had this surgery in the United States. Read More This weird quantum state of matter was made in orbit for the first time Bose-Einstein condensates made on the International Space Station could reach temperatures lower than any known in the universe. Read More Science News is a nonprofit. We depend on our readers to support our journalism. You can help by subscribing for as little as $25. SUBSCRIBE NOW A nose-horned dragon lizard lost to science for over 100 years has been found It’s now known that a Modigliani’s lizard, first found in 1891 in Indonesia, is bright green but can shift shades like a chameleon. Read More Biomedical studies are including more female subjects (finally) In 2019, 49 percent of biomedical research articles had both male and female subjects, almost double the percentage a decade ago. Read More Lockdowns may have averted 531 million coronavirus infections Policies that kept residents at home and closed businesses were largely effective at slowing the pandemic’s spread, two studies suggest. Read More Bringing sea otters back to the Pacific coast pays off, but not for everyone Benefits of reintroducing sea otters in the Pacific Northwest, such as boosting tourism, vastly outweigh the costs, a new analysis shows. Read More Scientists want to build a Noah’s Ark for the human microbiome Just as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault protects global crop diversity, the Microbiota Vault may one day protect the microbes on and in our bodies. Read More Privacy policy  |  Update Profile  | Manage Subscriptions  |   Unsubscribe This email was sent by: Society for Science & the Public 1719 N Street NW Washington, DC, 20036, US