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Glucagon-like peptide–1–based medicines have weight loss–independent actions
Foraging niches become more specialized toward bird range limits
Call to study glacial geoengineering stirs up “civil war” among polar scientists
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Algorithm that distinguishes among a host of underlying causes of dementia could be used for diagnosis in hospitals and clinics.
Strontium-based timepiece gains or loses only one second every 40 billion years.
The ocean-going Desertas petrel often follows storms for days over thousands of kilometres.
Records on the quality of the grape harvest sheds light on 600 years of weather.
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Feeble government response and lack of industry cooperation hamper U.S. control efforts
Scientists allege irregularities in papers on how honey bees gauge distance
Hardy zircons suggest subduction of ocean crust began 4 billion years ago
“New type of fossil” may boost efforts to bring beasts back
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Demand from Brazil itself accounts for more than half of the demand for crops and livestock from the Amazon and the savannah that surrounds it.
‘Amber’ beads dating to the Neolithic period, lasting from the fifth to the third millennium BC, are actually mollusc shells coated with resin and natural pigments.
Immune-system assassins called killer T cells compress target cells, forming a destructive crater.
The location of an injury determines whether ants bite off or preserve a damaged limb.
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As the hunt for habitable Earth-like planets stalls, astronomers are turning to bigger worlds
Four decades after his lab found odd, massive particles inside cells, Leonard Rome is still determined to figure out what “vaults” do
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Textile keeps its cool even when surrounded by urban surfaces that absorb and release heat.
Hubble observations of faint galaxies suggest that such objects could have been the seeds of very early supermassive black holes.
Findings support one idea about why self-directed immune responses are more common in some populations.
Samples taken near a capital of the pharaohs reveal an overhaul of the Nile 4,000 years ago.
Gamification was always just behaviorism dressed up in pixels and point systems. Why did we fall for it?
Kenyan runners, like many others, are grappling with the impact of expensive, high-performance shoes.
AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive.
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2024 target of ending all transmission will likely be missed
Discovery of new seismic concern stokes flooding fear for densely populated delta region
The hunt for Earth-like planets has run into headwinds. Some astronomers are looking for signs of habitability on bigger worlds
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Buried items show that the poor got poorer as the Assyrian empire and its bureaucracy swelled.
The gene-editing system, normally used to disrupt a gene, is applied to improve the function of a gene in rice.
Engineers are harnessing the powers of graphics processing units (GPUs) and more, with a bevy of tricks to meet the computational demands of artificial intelligence.
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