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Monkeylike Animals Once Lived in the Arctic, New Fossils Show

Darren Incorvaia

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RSV Is Spreading: What We Know about This Common and Surprisingly Dangerous Virus

Tara Haelle

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Dads Have Been Older than Moms since the Dawn of Humanity, Study Suggests

Freda Kreier and Nature magazine

This Overlooked Scientist Helped Save Washington, D.C.’s Cherry Trees

Mycologist Flora Patterson helped make the USDA fungus collection into the world’s largest. She also made a mean mushroom “catsup”

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Paleontology

Monkeylike Animals Once Lived in the Arctic, New Fossils Show

Darren Incorvaia

Epidemiology

RSV Is Spreading: What We Know about This Common and Surprisingly Dangerous Virus

Tara Haelle

Genetics

Dads Have Been Older than Moms since the Dawn of Humanity, Study Suggests

Freda Kreier and Nature magazine

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See the Largest Flower Ever Found Encased in Amber

Jack Tamisiea

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Ancient Americans Crossed Back into Siberia in a Two-Way Migration, New Evidence Shows

Freda Kreier

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Why COVID’s XBB.1.5 ‘Kraken’ Variant Is So Contagious

Ed Browne

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Aging Is Linked to More Activity in Short Genes Than in Long Genes

Diana Kwon

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Predators Act like Butterflies’ Eyespots Are Looking Right at Them

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New Human Metabolism Research Upends Conventional Wisdom about How We Burn Calories

Metabolism studies reveal surprising insights into how we burn calories—and how cooperative food production helped Homo sapiens flourish

See the Largest Flower Ever Found Encased in Amber

A rare flower encased in amber is the largest one ever found and dates from around 40 million years ago

Monkeylike Animals Once Lived in the Arctic, New Fossils Show

Two newly identified primatelike mammals once lived in the Arctic, which could help us understand how species there today may adapt as the climate heats up

Darren Incorvaia

Dads Have Been Older than Moms since the Dawn of Humanity, Study Suggests

Using modern human DNA to estimate when new generations were born over 250,000 years, scientists suggest that fathers have been having children later in life than mothers throughout human history...

Freda Kreier and Nature magazine

Why Your Dog Might Think You’re a Bonehead

The verdict is in: female dogs actively evaluate human competence.

Ancient Americans Crossed Back into Siberia in a Two-Way Migration, New Evidence Shows

Scientists have long known that ancient people living in Siberia made their way into what is now North America. Mounting DNA evidence suggests migration also happened in the opposite direction...

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