Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish

Human stem cells with a gene from our extinct relative produce brain organoids that differ in appearance and behavior | Continue reading

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Why Florida is struggling with an unusually severe HIV/AIDS problem

New efforts aim to curb the state’s startlingly high rate of new infections | Continue reading

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The little piece of DNA that makes girls boys

Study pinpoints regulatory DNA that’s key to determining sex of a child | Continue reading

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Seafloor cables for the world’s internet traffic can also detect earthquakes

Low-cost method could fill seismic detection gaps in ocean crust | Continue reading

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Saving the ‘god of ugly things’: NZ battles to restore its rodent-sized insects

Nearly wiped out by invasive mammals, New Zealand's giant weta are making a comeback | Continue reading

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More restrictive U.S. policy on Chinese graduate student visas raises alarm

Shorter stays for those in some fields adds to concerns about free flow of knowledge | Continue reading

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Inca civilization was better at skull surgery than Civil War doctors

Survival rate was a remarkable 80%, compared with just 50% during the American Civil War | Continue reading

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Artificial intelligence learns to spot pain in sheep

Program can look in a sheep’s eye and tell when it’s hurting | Continue reading

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The quoll was set to make a comeback–until it stopped fearing wild dogs

Quolls quickly lost aversion to predators on isolated island sanctuary | Continue reading

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Reports of sterile neutrino’s resurrection may be greatly exaggerated

In spite of MiniBooNE result, evidence for the weird particle has weakened | Continue reading

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NASA confirms amateur astronomer has discovered a lost satellite

IMAGE mission to map magnetosphere was thought lost in 2005 | Continue reading

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Something killed a lot of sperm whales in the past–and it wasn’t whalers

Study of the sea giants’ genetic diversity comes to surprising conclusion | Continue reading

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New artificial nerves could transform prosthetics

Arrays of such nerves could also make robots capable of humanlike touch | Continue reading

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What’s really behind ‘gluten sensitivity’?

Conflicting research points to an immune reaction or indigestible carbs | Continue reading

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Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise

Climate scientist tries to correct false statements at hearing | Continue reading

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Republican lawmaker: Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise

Climate scientist tries to correct false statements at hearing | Continue reading

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Should you get a genetic screen before having kids?

New whole-genome screening could give you insight—but at a cost | Continue reading

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Rise and fall of Roman Empire exposed in Greenland ice samples

Spikes and dips in lead pollution track wars and other historical events | Continue reading

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The Evolution of Sequencing Technology [pdf]

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Journal retracts paper claiming neurological damage from HPV vaccine

Authors did not agree to the retraction, ensuring continuing controversy | Continue reading

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6 cloned horses help rider win prestigious polo match

Celebrated rider Adolfo Cambiaso mounts six horses named Cuartetera | Continue reading

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Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts

$10 million research line used satellites and aircraft to monitor carbon sources and sinks | Continue reading

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Supposedly extinct kangaroo rat resurfaces after 30 years

Mexican mammal may have staged its comeback thanks to dwindling agriculture | Continue reading

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AI researchers allege that machine learning is alchemy

Study cites ways to bolster scientific foundations of artificial intelligence | Continue reading

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The bureaucracy of US science: Researchers spend weeks on clinical trial forms

Research groups say the agency hasn’t fully complied with congressional directive to halt rules that would label basic studies as trials | Continue reading

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AI researchers allege that machine learning is alchemy

Study cites ways to bolster scientific foundations of artificial intelligence | Continue reading

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AI researchers allege that machine learning is alchemy

Study cites ways to bolster scientific foundations of artificial intelligence | Continue reading

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Disgraced Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini Publishes Another Stem Cell Paper

Despite firings and scientific misconduct charges, Paolo Macchiarini publishes again in a peer-reviewed journal | Continue reading

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How the police may have tracked down the Golden State killer

Geneticist Yaniv Erlich warned 4 years ago that sharing your DNA with the world could reveal surprising connections | Continue reading

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What the heck is an engineer anyway?

The distinction between science and engineering can be puzzling, our columnist writes | Continue reading

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