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Giant ground sloths may have been meat-eating scavengers

Oct 07 2021 5:00 AM

Contrary to previous assumptions, at least one ancient giant ground sloth was a meat eater.

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An easier, greener way to build molecules wins the chemistry Nobel Prize

Oct 06 2021 11:57 AM

Chemists Benjamin List and David MacMillan have sparked a whole new field that's aided drug discovery and made chemistry more environmentally friendly.

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When James Webb launches, it will have a bigger to-do list than 1980s researchers suspected

Oct 06 2021 10:52 AM

The James Webb Space Telescope has been in development for so long that space science has changed in the meantime.

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Space rocks may have bounced off baby Earth, but slammed into Venus

Oct 06 2021 6:00 AM

New simulations suggest a way to help explain dramatic differences between the sibling worlds.

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Work on complex systems, including Earth's climate, wins the physics Nobel Prize

Oct 05 2021 11:05 AM

Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann pioneered work on computer simulations of Earth's climate. Giorgio Parisi found hidden patterns in disordered complex materials.

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Radiometric dating puts pieces of the past in context. Here's how

Oct 05 2021 9:30 AM

Carbon dating and other techniques answer essential questions about human history, our planet and the solar system.

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An experimental device interrupts brain activity linked to a woman's low mood. The technology, she said, has changed her lens on life.

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In a quantum computer made with trapped ions, multiple quantum bits were combined into one to detect mistakes.

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