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Humans Threaten Over 100 Precious Natural Heritage Sites
Forest loss and humans’ footprint are endangering the very sites humans want to preserve
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Did an Earthquake Make Mount Everest Shorter? New Expedition Aims to Find Out
India and Nepal both plan to determine if the 2015 earthquake that devastated Nepal caused the world’s highest peak to lose an inch
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By Age Six, Girls Have Already Stopped Thinking of Their Gender as ‘Brilliant’
The’re more likely to assume that someone who is ‘very, very smart’ is male, new research finds
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Human-Pig Chimeras Created for the First Time
The hybrid embryos are the first step in interspecies organ transplants
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Changing Climate, Not Humans, Killed Australia’s Massive Mammals
But that mass extinction could help us predict what today’s human-wrought climate change may bring
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The Quest to Return Tomatoes to Their Full-Flavored Glory
We’ve bred the original tomato taste out of existence. Now geneticists are asking: Can we put it back?
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Robo-Dermatologist Diagnoses Skin Cancer With Expert Accuracy
A neural network can recognize and categorize skin lesions as well as MDs and may lead to a cancer-screening mobile app
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Ancient Asteroid Collision Is Still Raining Space Rocks Down on Earth
A new study shows that today’s meteorites considerably differ from those of the ancient past
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More Women Die of Cervical Cancer Than Previously Thought
Past studies significantly underestimated cervical cancer deaths—and racial disparities
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Scientists Can Turn This Gecko-Inspired Gripping Device On or Off With the Flick of a Light
The mighty lizard inspires yet another innovation that could prove a boon to robotics and manufacturing
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Did Neanderthals Like Pretty Rocks?
An unusual rock in a cave inhabited by Neanderthals in Croatia suggests the hominids may have picked up interesting stones
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Scientists Capture a “Sonic Boom” of Light
A new, ultra-fast camera recorded the phenomenon for the first time
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Ötzi the Iceman’s Last Meal Included Goat Bacon
Analysis of the 5,300-year-old mummy’s stomach contents shows he ate dry-cured meat from a mountain ibex
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How Scientists Reconstructed the Brain of a Long-Extinct Beast
This dog-like marsupial went extinct 80 years ago, but its preserved brains help us glean how its mind worked
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Dark Matter Could Be Destroying Distant Galaxies
The mysterious substance may suck gas from the galaxies—and a gasless galaxy is a dead galaxy
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Dueling Theories on the Cause of “Fairy Circles” Could Both Be Right
New research brings together competing concepts to describe how the mysterious features form
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One in Five People May Be Able to “Hear” a Flash of Light
Once thought to be a rare condition, some forms of synesthesia may be fairly common
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Scientists Spot Massive Wave in Venus’ Atmosphere
The 6,200-mile long bow-shaped wrinkle may have been caused by gravity waves
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Scientists Make the Coldest Object on Earth
Researchers cooled a tiny aluminum drum almost to absolute zero and think they can go even further
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Have Scientists Found a Way to Actually Reduce the Effects of Aging?
Researchers at the Salk Institute in California have successfully induced cells to behave like younger cells
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