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How cosmic events may have influenced hominin evolution

Has an asteroid impact influenced the course of human evolution?Anna Ivanova/Alamy This…

Trump’s Health Cuts Make States Struggle to Spot Disease Outbreaks

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A bioengineered protein may someday treat carbon monoxide poisoning

An antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning could come from bacteria. Mice treated…

Appreciating van Leeuwenhoek: The Cloth Merchant Who Discovered Microbes

Imagine trying to cope with a pandemic like COVID-19 in a world…

Iridescent mammals are much more common than we thought

The tropical vlei rat has fur that shimmers with iridescent huesJessica Leigh…

A ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report Goes Easy on the Food Industry

September 9, 20253 min readA ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report Goes Easy…

A cold today helps keep the COVID away

A recent bout of the common cold may be a defense against…

‘Great Migration’ involves far fewer wildebeest than we had thought

The wildebeest migration of the Serengeti involves fewer animals than we had…

JWST Sees Hints of an Atmosphere on a Potentially Habitable Exoplanet

If we’ll ever find life outside our solar system, it will not…