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5000-year-old monument may contain ancestors of Stonehenge builders

Jul. 17, 2017
Scientists record videos in strands of DNA using CRISPR

Jul. 17, 2017
Update: Afghan all-girl robotics team gains entry to the United States

Jul. 14, 2017
Cowardly mice become alpha males when scientists flip a neural switch

Jul. 14, 2017
Early bird or night owl? Modern-day sleeping habits may be ancient survival tools

Jul. 12, 2017
Your eyes could be teeming with bacteria, and that’s a good thing

Jul. 11, 2017
A plant’s defense mechanism drives this caterpillar to cannibalism

Jul. 10, 2017
Lab houses world’s largest collection of animal eyeballs

Jul. 6, 2017
Hobby Lobby to give back thousands of smuggled antiquities, pay a $3 million fine

Jul. 6, 2017
Chemotherapy may help cancer spread, new study shows

Jul. 5, 2017
How one cat revolutionized the plastics industry

Jul. 5, 2017
All-girl Afghani robotics team denied entry to United States

Jul. 5, 2017
Whale ancestor could be the ‘missing link’ between sharp-toothed hunters and filter feeders

Jun. 30, 2017
Ancient armor-plated lizard roamed dry land, new fossil reveals

Jun. 30, 2017
This bizarre animal has just found its place in the tree of life

Jun. 29, 2017
If needles scare you, this new skin patch vaccine might be your best bet

Jun. 29, 2017
Magnets cure ‘dancing eyes’

Jun. 27, 2017
Invading sea pickles could create a North Pacific ‘dead zone’

Jun. 26, 2017
Generic form of Prozac curbs some symptoms of ‘autism’ in mice

Jun. 23, 2017
Forget about Planet Nine. Here’s evidence for Planet 10

Jun. 22, 2017
Record-breaking temperatures in Southwest ground flights

Jun. 21, 2017
Bioterrorism rule blocks some U.S. researchers from studying bird flu

Jun. 20, 2017
Corpse’s time of death estimated by profiling blow fly eggs

Jun. 20, 2017
All stars could have a twin, our sun included

Jun. 19, 2017