Recent studies using CRISPR to fast-track genetic studies into human disease genes appear flawed.
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New mathematical technique enables astronomers to predict the whereabouts of missing worlds around nearby stars.
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Earth's magnetic field locks information into lava as it cools into rock. Millions of years later, scientists can decipher…
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Five centuries before Columbus arrived, migrants were spreading across North America, carrying their culture with them and…
Air pollution can weaken people's respiratory, immune and cardiovascular systems, leaving them more vulnerable when…
'Normal' body temperature has declined in urban, industrialized settings like the US and UK. Anthropologists find…
The pattern of autumn sea ice growth has been completely disrupted. The director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center…
Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains belonging to an enormous 'toothed' bird that lived for a period of…
Philosophers say now is the time to mull over what qualities should grant an artificially intelligent machine moral standing.
Dogs process the sensory world very differently than humans, but love in a way that is entirely familiar.
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An optical sensor that can detect individual molecules promises early detection of diseases and environmental contamination.
A new environmental record for a prehistoric site in Kenya helped researchers figure out how external conditions influenced…