Scientists grow human-Neanderthal hybrid ‘minibrains’ in petri dishes
Sesame seed-size brains created from a mix of human and Neanderthal genes lived briefly in petri dishes in a University of California, San Diego la…
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Medium-size dinos are missing from the fossil record. Here’s why.
Medium-size meat-eating dinosaurs are missing from the fossil record, and p…
Mysterious stripes spotted over Russia in satellite images — and NASA is perplexed
Near the Markha River in Arctic Siberia, the earth ripples in ways that scientists d…
Earth’s magnetic field flipped 42,000 years ago, creating a climate ‘disaster’
A reversal in Earth's magnetic field thousands of years ago plunged t…
Cancer patients weren’t responding to therapy. Then they got a poop transplant.
For some cancer patients, a "poop transplant" could boost the positive effects of immunotherapy, a treatment designed to rally the immune system ag…
The sneaky way the coronavirus mutates to escape the immune system
The novel coronavirus has developed a number of worrisome mutations
Earth’s mountains disappeared for a billion years, and then life stopped evolving
Earth, like so many of its human inhabitants, may have experienced a mid-life crisis that culminated in baldness. But it wasn't a receding hairline…
Prior infection with common cold viruses won’t protect against COVID-19
For months, scientists have wondered whether past exposure to seasonal coronaviruses that cause common colds might prevent people from getting a se…