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7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid

Aug 24 2022 11:00 AM

An earlier report on one of the bones of a 7-million-year-old creature that may have walked upright has triggered scientific misconduct charges.

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50 years ago, genes eluded electron microscopes

Aug 24 2022 10:10 AM

In the 1970s, scientists dreamed of seeing genes under the microscope. Fifty years later, powerful new tools are helping to make that dream come true.

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Sleep deprivation may make people less generous

Aug 23 2022 2:00 PM

Helping each other is inherently human. Yet new research shows that sleep deprivation may dampen people's desire to donate money.

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The discovery of the Kuiper Belt revamped our view of the solar system

Aug 23 2022 9:22 AM

Thirty years ago, astronomers found the Kuiper Belt, a region of space home to Pluto and other icy worlds that helped show how the solar system evolved.

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News stories have caught spiders in a web of misinformation

Aug 22 2022 11:00 AM

Nearly half of news stories about peoples' interactions with spiders contain errors, according to a new analysis.

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Not one, but two asteroids might have slain the dinosaurs

Aug 22 2022 9:00 AM

A craterlike structure found off West Africa's coast might have been formed by an asteroid impact around the same time the dinosaurs went extinct.

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