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CRISPR creates first genetically modified marsupials

Jul. 22, 2021
Some pikas survive the winter by eating yak poop

Jul. 20, 2021
Gene therapy restores missing dopamine in children with rare brain disease

Jul. 14, 2021
Climate change has made hurricanes more dangerous, but not more frequent

Jul. 13, 2021
Dense swarms of fireflies flash in unison

Jul. 8, 2021
Physicists take the most detailed image of atoms to date

Jun. 30, 2021
Dinosaurs may have lived in the Arctic year-round

Jun. 25, 2021
Massive comet to fly by Saturn in 2031

Jun. 24, 2021
Soil without detectable life discovered in Antarctica

Jun. 18, 2021
This homely mollusk’s rock-hard chompers are made of rare minerals

Jun. 2, 2021
Sugars spice up RNA

May. 18, 2021
Paralyzed person types at record speed—by imagining handwriting

May. 13, 2021
Climate change is triggering more lightning strikes in the Arctic

Apr. 7, 2021
Tropical forest destruction increases, despite the pandemic

Mar. 31, 2021
Pesticide-blocking gene transferred from plants to animals

Mar. 26, 2021
Your spit could reveal whether you’ve had a concussion

Mar. 24, 2021
Scientists have been underestimating the power of tornadoes

Mar. 23, 2021
Scientists use ‘x-ray vision’ to read a letter sealed in 1697

Mar. 2, 2021
This ancient Egyptian pharaoh met a gruesome end, scans reveal

Feb. 23, 2021
Astronomers spy promising blob around our nearest neighbor star, but is it a planet?

Feb. 11, 2021
It is not a flower. It is a fungus!

Feb. 4, 2021
Watch blue whales try to dodge ships in Patagonia

Feb. 3, 2021
In biblical times, purple was the new black

Jan. 29, 2021
Nine hikers mysteriously perished in the Russian mountains in 1959. Scientists may now know why

Jan. 28, 2021