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10/13/2022

Drone photos reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands

Oct 13 2022 6:00 AM

Urban growth around 4,600 years ago, near what is now southern Iraq, occurred on marshy outposts that lacked a city center.

Dinosaur 'mummies' may not be rare flukes after all

Oct 12 2022 2:00 PM

Bite marks on a fossilized dinosaur upend the idea that exquisite skin preservation must result from a carcass's immediate smothering under sediment.

Clumps of human nerve cells thrived in rat brains

Oct 12 2022 11:00 AM

New results suggest that environment matters for the development of brain organoids, 3-D nerve cell clusters that grow and mimic the human brain.

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NASA's DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid

Oct 11 2022 5:29 PM

Data obtained since the spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid show that the impact altered the space rock's orbit even more than intended.

The James Webb Space Telescope spied the earliest born stars yet seen

Oct 11 2022 12:00 PM

The stars, found in the first released science image from the James Webb Space Telescope, probably winked into existence about 13 billion years ago.

A glimpse inside a gecko's hand won the 2022 Nikon Small World photo contest

Oct 11 2022 10:00 AM

The annual competition highlights microscopic images that bring the smallest details from science and nature to life.

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Oct 07 2022 4:36 PM

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Tree-climbing carnivores called fishers are back in Washington's forests

Oct 07 2022 10:00 AM

Thanks to a 14-year reintroduction effort, fishers, or "tree wolverines," are once again climbing and hunting in Washington's forests after fur trapping and habitat loss wiped them out.

Mars' buried 'lake' might just be layers of ice and rock

Oct 07 2022 8:00 AM

Evidence grows that possible detections of liquid water buried near Mars' south pole might not hold water.

A metal ion bath may make fibers stronger than spider silk

Oct 06 2022 2:00 PM

The work is the latest in a decades-long quest to create artificial fibers as strong, lightweight and biodegradable as spider silk.

How dormant bacteria spores sense when it's time to come back to life

Oct 06 2022 2:00 PM

Bacterial cells shut down and become spores to survive harsh environments. An internal countdown signals when it's safe for bacteria to revive.

Here's where jazz gets its swing

Oct 06 2022 11:00 AM

Swing, the feeling of a rhythm in jazz music that compels feet to tap, may arise from near-imperceptible delays in musicians' timing, a study shows.

Losing amphibians may be tied to spikes in human malaria cases

Oct 05 2022 12:00 PM

Missing frogs, toads and salamanders may have led to more mosquitoes and potentially more malaria transmission, a study in Panama and Costa Rica finds.

Pterosaurs may have evolved from tiny, fast-running reptiles

Oct 05 2022 11:00 AM

A mysterious little ground-dwelling reptile unearthed in a Scottish sandstone over 100 years ago turns out to be part of a famous flying family.

A way to snap molecules together like Lego wins 2022 chemistry Nobel

Oct 05 2022 10:48 AM

Click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry allow scientists to build complex molecules in the lab and in living cells.

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