Science
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Evolution’s Favorite Fish Diversify through ‘Noncoding’ Genes
Darwin’s finches are perhaps the best-known examples of adaptive radiation—the evolutionary phenomenon in which one ancestral species rapidly diversifies into…
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Discovery About Naked Giant Carved Into English Hillside Arouses Scientists
Unraveling the mystery behind a very erect giant carved into a hillside has been hard, but a recent discovery is…
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‘Tree Farts’ Increase Carbon Emissions in Ghost Forests
Trees that were poisoned and killed by saltwater are emitting greenhouses gases known as “tree farts,” prompting researchers to warn…
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When Scientific Orthodoxy Resembles Religious Dogma
When my Harvard colleague Stephen Greenblatt saw my book Extraterrestrial featured on the cover of the Orthodox Jewish magazine Ami,…
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Delaying a COVID Vaccine’s Second Dose Boosts Immune Response in the Elderly
Facing a limited vaccine supply, the United Kingdom embarked on a bold public-health experiment at the end of 2020: delaying…
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Fraudulent Fish Foiled by Cancer-Catching Pen
When chemistry graduate student Abby Gatmaitan first visited the University of Texas at Austin on a recruiting tour, she learned…
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What I Learned in Space about the Climate Emergency
When you look at Earth from space, you realize just how vulnerable life is on this planet. The atmosphere is…
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Autism and the Social Mind
Since the modern era of research on autism began in the 1980s, questions about social cognition and social brain development…
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Exxon Mobil’s Messaging Shifted Blame for Warming to Consumers
Exxon Mobil Corp. has used language to systematically shift blame for climate change from fossil fuel companies onto consumers, according…
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China Lands Tianwen-1 Rover on Mars in a Major First for the Country
And then there were two: today China says it safely landed a spacecraft on Mars—for the first time in its…
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