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Ivory trade kingpins could be toppled by testing tusk DNA

Sep. 19, 2018
Fifty-thousand-year-old wolf pup still has paws, skin, and hair

Sep. 17, 2018
Archaeologists may have unearthed world’s oldest brewery

Sep. 17, 2018
Appeals court sides with Broad in CRISPR patent fight

Sep. 10, 2018
World’s oldest cheese may have been discovered in Croatian pottery

Sep. 7, 2018
How an aquarium trick became a fad in the dolphin world

Aug. 30, 2018
Antidepressant ketamine might affect the brain like an opioid

Aug. 29, 2018
Air pollution could be making us less intelligent

Aug. 28, 2018
Scientists pinpoint the ear protein that allows us to hear

Aug. 23, 2018
Scientists tweak DNA in viable human embryos

Aug. 20, 2018
This beetle had a head full of pollen for 99 million years

Aug. 17, 2018
Elephants rarely get cancer thanks to a ‘zombie’ gene

Aug. 15, 2018
No life in the Omega Centauri system, scientists say

Aug. 10, 2018
It’s time to use fewer colors in scientific figures, some experts say

Aug. 10, 2018
Marine mammals lost a gene that could help them survive polluted waters

Aug. 10, 2018
Men are better navigators than women—but for this unfortunate reason

Aug. 10, 2018
Stellar eruption sent gas flying at record speeds

Aug. 6, 2018
Lab-grown lungs transplanted into pigs

Aug. 6, 2018
Hospital hand sanitizers not potent enough for superbug

Aug. 2, 2018
Five superstars win ‘math’s Nobel Prize’

Aug. 1, 2018
Which Beatle wrote one of the most famous songs of all time? A math model has the answer

Aug. 1, 2018
Heading a soccer ball could be more dangerous for female players

Aug. 1, 2018
World’s biggest king penguin population plummets 90%

Aug. 1, 2018
A psychedelic keeps this cicada flying even after a fungus has destroyed its abdomen

Jul. 30, 2018