News

  1. Earth

    African fossils suggest complex life arose early

    Researchers find evidence that Earth’s earliest multicellular life got going 2.1 billion years ago.

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  2. Earth

    Moby Dick meets Jaws

    A recently discovered fossil demonstrates that giant whales weren’t always as gentle as they are today.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Controlling blood sugar may prevent eye problems in diabetes patients

    Careful monitoring of glucose levels and taking drugs to control blood lipids and cholesterol can pay dividends, a large trial finds.

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  4. Space

    Making lemonade with quantum lemons

    Physicists produce “spooky action at a distance,” using a phenomenon that would usually disrupt it.

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  5. Ecosystems

    Bats, wolves feel the heat

    News from the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Laramie, Wyo., June 11-15

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  6. Life

    Resveratrol shows activity against insulin resistance and retinal disease

    A widely touted anti-aging compound shows activity in people and may work in new ways to fight eye disease.

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  7. Life

    Fishy odor just like dad’s

    Imprinting on their fathers’ scent helps keep two fish species separate.

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  8. Computing

    Circling the square

    The scientist who scanned the first digital image aims to smooth the pixel.

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  9. Neutrino experiments sow seeds of possible revolution

    Recent results from two experiments that examine the behavior of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos hint at the possibility of a revolution in particle physics.

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  10. Archaeology

    Serbian site may have hosted first copper makers

    Newly identified remnants of copper smelting at a 7,000-year-old Serbian site fuel debate over where and when this practice began.

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  11. Psychology

    Social judgments take touching turns

    New evidence suggests that the sense of touch influences people’s willingness to drive a hard bargain or endorse a job candidate.

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  12. Blind mice see again

    Researchers use a bacterial gene to cure blindness in mice.

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