Denisovans Extend Their Range to Asia’s Pacific Coast
For decades, fishermen sailing off the coast of Taiwan have sometimes discovered fossils in their trawling nets: the bones of
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Neutrinos Are Shrinking, and That’s a Good Thing for Physics
On Thursday, researchers unveiled the most precise measurement yet of a neutrino, scaling down the maximum possible mass of the
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‘The Pitt’ Captures the Real Overcrowding Crisis in E.R.’s
The emergency department waiting room was jammed, as it always is, with patients sitting for hours, closely packed on hard
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One-Third of Maternal Deaths Occur Long After Delivery, Study Finds
During a recent five-year period, a substantial portion of maternal deaths in America — almost one-third — took place more
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Xavier Le Pichon, Who Modeled Movement of Earth’s Crust, Dies at 87
Xavier Le Pichon, a French geophysicist whose pioneering model of the earth’s tectonic plates helped revolutionize how scientists understand movements
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Chinese Lunar Rocks Suggest a Thirsty Far Side of the Moon
The far side of the moon — the part that always faces away from Earth — is mysteriously distinct from
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Scientists Map Miles of Wiring in a Speck of Mouse Brain
The human brain is so complex that scientific brains have a hard time making sense of it. A piece of
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Ancient altar found in Guatemala jungle apparently used for sacrifices, “especially of children,” archaeologists say
An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park
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NOAA Staffing Cuts Threaten Years of Salmon Harvests
In Washington State, April is when millions of young Chinook salmon are released from hatcheries, where they started as tiny,
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Five Takeaways From Trump’s Plan to Rescue Coal
Hard hats are back. So is “beautiful, clean” coal. President Trump signed four executive orders on Tuesday to try to
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