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Extinct thinking: was the hapless dodo really destined to die out?
New research hints that far from being the greedy, clumsy bird of legend, the dodo was a resilient animal whose demise was caused by an ecological disaster
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New type of ‘flow battery’ can store 10 times the energy of the next best device
Industrial-scale batteries, known as flow batteries, could one day usher in widespread use of renewable energy—but only if the devices can store large amounts of energy cheaply and feed it […]
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Pushing the Limits of Life
Everywhere scientists have looked on Earth, they have found signs of life. They’ve looked in the deepest oceans and the driest deserts, and in every case, life—in some form or […]
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Mathematician claims breakthrough in complexity theory
For days, rumors about the biggest advance in years in so-called complexity theory have been lighting up the Internet. That’s only fitting, as the breakthrough involves comparing networks just like […]
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The tapeworm that turned into a tumour
A tapeworm that infected a Colombian man deposited malignant cells inside his body that spread much like an aggressive cancer, researchers have reported in a bizarre, but not unprecedented, case.
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Disk Gaps Don’t Always Signal Planets
When astronomers study protoplanetary disks of gas and dust that surround young stars, they sometimes spot a dark gap like the Cassini division in Saturn’s rings. It has been suggested […]
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The future of scientific publishing: let’s make sure it’s fair as well as transparent
Scientific publishing has undergone a revolution in recent years – largely due to the internet. And it shows no sign of letting up as a growing number of countries attempt […]
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Editing of Pig DNA May Lead to More Organs for People
In a typical experiment, scientists use Crispr to alter a single gene. But in recent work with pig cells, Dr. Church and his colleagues used Crispr to alter 62 genes […]
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Still More Evidence That Antioxidant Supplements Actually Increase Cancer Risk
As described in the current issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers have found that antioxidants as much as double the rate of melanoma metastasis in mouse models. The results align […]
