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Stone artifacts hint that humans reached the Americas surprisingly early

Jul 22 2020 11:00 AM

Finds uncovered in a Mexican cave suggest North America may have had human inhabitants more than 30,000 years ago - way before archaeologists thought.

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This is the first picture of a sunlike star with multiple exoplanets

Jul 22 2020 9:00 AM

A first family portrait reveals a weird cousin of the solar system: a star about the mass of the sun orbited - distantly - by two massive gas giants.

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A blood test may show which COVID-19 patients steroids will help - or harm

Jul 22 2020 5:00 AM

An inflammation marker was a good indicator of which patients had lower or higher risks of dying or needing a ventilator when given steroids.

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COVID-19 vaccines by Oxford, CanSino and Pfizer all trigger immune responses

Jul 21 2020 12:46 PM

In three clinical trials, vaccine candidates appear safe and induce the production of antibodies and other immune cell responses against the coronavirus.

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How Yellowstone wolves got their own Ancestry.com page

Jul 21 2020 8:00 AM

Since the wolves' reintroduction to the park, 25 years of devoted watching has chronicled bold moves, big fights and lots of puppies.

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Scientists stumbled across the first known manganese-fueled bacteria

Jul 21 2020 6:00 AM

A jar left soaking in an office sink helped scientists answer a century-old question of whether bacteria can use manganese for energy.

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Coronavirus-infected cells sprout filaments that may spread the virus
Jul 20 2020 3:09 PM

Like other coronaviruses, the virus behind COVID-19 causes infected cells to grow spindly projections that may act as highways to other cells.

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50 years ago, NASA prepared to launch America's first space station
Jul 20 2020 11:10 AM

In 1970, NASA was building Skylab. The orbiting laboratory led to many scientific firsts but was plagued by technical difficulties.

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Pinning down the sun's birthplace just got more complicated
Jul 20 2020 6:00 AM

Many astronomers think that the sun was born in a loose association of thousands of stars. A new study suggests there's another possibility.

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A giant underground motion sensor in Germany tracks Earth's wobbles
Jul 17 2020 3:25 PM

A giant underground gyroscope array has taken its first measurements of how the world goes 'round.

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An asteroid impact, not volcanism, may have made Earth unlivable for dinosaurs
Jul 17 2020 8:00 AM

New simulations add to growing evidence that an asteroid strike, rather than the Deccan Traps eruptions, caused the end-Cretaceous extinction.

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College biology textbooks still portray a world of white scientists
Jul 17 2020 6:00 AM

Despite recent efforts to include more women and people of color, it will be decades - or even centuries - before textbooks reflect student diversity.

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This dinosaur may have shed its feathers like modern songbirds
Jul 16 2020 1:29 PM

One of the earliest flying dinosaurs, the four-winged Microraptor, may have molted just a bit at a time so that it could fly year-round.

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How some superblack fish disappear into the darkness of the deep sea
Jul 16 2020 11:00 AM

Some fish that live in the ocean's depths are superblack as a result of a special layer of light-absorbing structures in the skin.

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The closest images of the sun ever taken reveal 'campfire' flares
Jul 16 2020 8:15 AM

The first images from Solar Orbiter, a NASA-European Space Agency spacecraft, show tiny, never-before-seen flares across the sun's surface.

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Climate change made Siberia's heat wave at least 600 times more likely
Jul 15 2020 5:00 PM

Siberia's six-month heat wave during the first half of 2020 would not have happened without human-caused climate change, researchers find.

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