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Trilobites: A New Spider Family Tree Tries to Untangle the Evolution of Webs last updated on: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:36:48 GMT
Scientists have fiercely debated the origins of the orb-style web. A new study challenges the idea that all spiders who make this web had a common ancestor.
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Trilobites: A Massacre Frozen in Time: Skeletons in Sweden Reveal Ancient Attack last updated on: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:10:40 GMT
An archaeological dig of a fifth-century village offers a glimpse of the violent chaos across Europe as the Roman Empire fell.
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Trilobites: Why It Seems as if Everyone Is Always Angry With You last updated on: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:07:47 GMT
It’s possible that they aren’t, it’s just that you have trouble reading neutral facial expressions because of your family experience, a new study suggests.
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Setting Fires and Restoring an American Landscape last updated on: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:17:30 GMT
Where development and fragmentation have disrupted natural cycles, teams run controlled burns every spring to help sustain prairies and other ecosystems that have long been shaped by fire.
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Trilobites: These Ants Explode, but Their Nests Live to See Another Day last updated on: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:10:02 GMT
Scientists described in depth a species of ants in Southeast Asia that fight attackers by rupturing their own abdomens to release a sticky fluid laced with toxins.
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Trilobites: What a Scientist Learned From Studying the ‘Synchronized Swimming of Sea Monkeys’ last updated on: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:38:56 GMT
Tiny crustaceans complete a massive daily vertical migration in the world’s oceans. New research suggests their commute may play an important role in the health of the planet.
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Matter: Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea last updated on: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:02:04 GMT
The Bajau, who spend most of their time on the ocean, are among the best divers in the world. Evolution is remaking them, a new study finds.
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Trump’s NASA Nominee, Jim Bridenstine, Confirmed by Senate on Party-Line Vote last updated on: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 02:16:21 GMT
The Oklahoma congressman’s nomination languished for more than seven months as senators raised objections to his record, and now additional concerns have been raised.
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How NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Will Hunt Exoplanets last updated on: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:52:22 GMT
NASA’s TESS spacecraft will spend two years searching the sky for nearby alien worlds.
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‘Desperation Oncology’: When Patients Are Dying, Some Cancer Doctors Turn to Immunotherapy last updated on: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:00:06 GMT
The drugs don’t work against every cancer — but on rare occasions, they work miracles.
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A Lifesaving Pump for Cancer Patients Is Being Phased Out last updated on: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:34:09 GMT
A small, implantable device made by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary has been discontinued, with no replacement in sight.
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Global Health: Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa With Routine Antibiotics last updated on: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:00:05 GMT
Providing one dose every six months saved one in four babies, researchers reported. Now the W.H.O. will consider recommending routine use.
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Dr. Samuel Epstein, 91, Cassandra of Cancer Prevention, Dies last updated on: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:08:37 GMT
He blamed greedy manufacturers, lax regulators, misguided researchers and complicit charitable groups for what he saw as a coming cancer epidemic.
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With George H.W. Bush Hospitalized, the World Wonders: Is It a Broken Heart? last updated on: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:15:30 GMT
Failing health after sudden grief — especially the loss of a spouse — has been reported by medical researchers. But it seems to be statistically quite rare, experts said.
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Scott Pruitt’s Political Patron Now Questions the E.P.A. Chief’s Ethics last updated on: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:19:57 GMT
Senator James Inhofe, who has long championed Mr. Pruitt, now says he’d like to see an investigation into the ethical allegations against his protégé.
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Nonfiction: How Does Empathy Work? A Writer Explores the Science and Its Applications last updated on: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 19:00:04 GMT
In “I Feel You,” Cris Beam examines how we come to feel one another’s pain.
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F.D.A. Cracks Down on ‘Juuling’ Among Teenagers last updated on: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:16:29 GMT
The agency has begun an aggressive campaign to target retailers and manufacturers that market e-cigarettes to minors. The devices’ popularity has alarmed parents, schools and public health officials.
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Trump Administration Pushes Abstinence in Teen Pregnancy Programs last updated on: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:24:57 GMT
New rules don’t explicitly exclude teaching about contraception and protected sex, but favor “sexual risk avoidance” and don’t require as rigorous evidence of efficacy.
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The Healing Edge: ‘Whole Again’: A Vet Maimed by an I.E.D. Receives a Transplanted Penis last updated on: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:29:44 GMT
A young soldier whose genitals were destroyed underwent extensive reconstructive surgery that doctors hope to offer to others who were wounded at war.
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Q&A: What Lies Beneath Jupiter’s Great Red Spot? last updated on: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:37:46 GMT
The mysterious, orangish storm has shrunk in diameter in recent decades, but has increased in height and depth.
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Her Daughter’s Diagnosis Made Her Work as a Scientist Personal last updated on: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:17:31 GMT
Soo-Kyung Lee had been studying the FOXG1 gene for years. Her research took on new meaning when she learned that her daughter, Yuna, had a rare defect on that gene.
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Infinitesimal Odds: A Scientist Finds Her Child’s Rare Illness Stems From the Gene She Studies last updated on: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:55:14 GMT
When it comes to studying the genetics of the brain, Soo-Kyung Lee is a star, yet she was stunned to discover the cause of her daughter’s devastating disabilities.
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Reporter’s Notebook: How’s the Air in London? ‘We Should Be Worried’ last updated on: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:08:32 GMT
Our reporter visited an artist’s “pollution pods” to sample the smog and haze he recreated from some of the world’s most contaminated cities.
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Global Health: Ethicists Call for More Scrutiny of ‘Human-Challenge’ Trials last updated on: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:25:51 GMT
A vaccine study in which subjects are to be deliberately infected with Zika is on pause after ethicists said it had “insufficient value.”
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Ask Well: Can You Miss the Signs of Heart Disease or a Heart Attack? last updated on: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:01:03 GMT
It’s not always easy to tell if you have heart disease or have had a heart attack.
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Nonfiction: A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story last updated on: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:13 GMT
The Harvard geneticist David Reich details his groundbreaking research into ancient DNA in “Who We Are and How We Got Here.”
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