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Category: Science
New CRISPR technology offers unrivaled control of epige...
Scientists have figured out how to modify CRISPR's basic architecture to extend its reach beyond the genome and into what's known ...
Scientists generate human-monkey chimeric embryos
Researchers have injected human stem cells into primate embryos and were able to grow chimeric embryos for a significant period of...
How many T. rexes were there? Billions
With fossils few and far between, paleontologists have shied away from estimating the size of extinct populations. But scientists ...
Global glacier retreat has accelerated
Scientists have shown that almost all the world's glaciers are becoming thinner and losing mass -- and that these changes are pick...
The cerebellum may have played an important role in the...
The cerebellum -- a part of the brain once recognized mainly for its role in coordinating movement -- underwent evolutionary chang...
Sharks use Earth's magnetic fields to guide them like a...
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where the...
Earliest evidence of humans changing ecosystems with fi...
A new study provides the earliest evidence to date of ancient humans significantly altering entire ecosystems with flames. The stu...
Bats know the speed of sound from birth, scientists dis...
Unlike humans, who map the world in units of distance, bats map the world in units of time. What this means is that the bat percei...
Lightning and subvisible discharges produce molecules t...
Scientists have found that lightning bolts and, surprisingly, subvisible discharges that cannot be seen by cameras or the naked ey...
Was North America populated by 'stepping stone' migrati...
A new study documents the newly named Bering Transitory Archipelago and then points to how, when and where the first Americans may...
Harnessing the hum of fluorescent lights for more effic...
The property that makes fluorescent lights buzz could power a new generation of more efficient computing devices that store data w...
Antarctic ice sheet retreat could trigger chain reactio...
The Antarctic ice sheet was even more unstable in the past than previously thought, and at times possibly came close to collapse, ...