The best way to save giant sequoias may be more fire
Giant sequoias are built to withstand ordinary fires, but recent extreme wildfires killed thousands of trees that had survived for centuries…
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Giant sequoias are built to withstand ordinary fires, but recent extreme wildfires killed thousands of trees that had survived for centuries…
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A new study suggests linguistic diversity reached its peak between 1000 B.C.E. and 1000 C.E. before declining
The Backrooms began as a single eerie image of empty yellow rooms, but internet users transformed it into a vast fictional world that feels …
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The European Central Bank released a shortlist of ten potential designs for a new series of printed banknotes, the first complete redesign s…
A notorious snake invasion that devastated Guam’s native birds may have succeeded because the reptiles carried hidden genetic advantages. Us…
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The bioinspired device, which weighs roughly half a pound and measures around three feet wide, was also modeled after aquatic birds like puf…
Researchers say a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago may have shaped the evolution of every vertebrate eye, incl…
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Shuttered since the Covid-19 pandemic, the Los Angeles landmark is being revived as more Americans buy tickets to see movies in theaters
Recycling, greener diets, and other personal climate choices do not seem to distract people from supporting major environmental reforms. A f…
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The newly found object, estimated to be roughly as massive as Jupiter, orbits a brown dwarf—a "failed star"—which in turn circles a small st…
Cosmic expansion allows distant galaxies to move away faster than light, while still letting us see ancient light they emitted when they wer…
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The Mangrove Photography Awards honor images that show off the beauty—and the fragility—of these valuable intertidal forests
Newer oral drugs related to semaglutide medications such as Ozempic reduced pleasure-driven eating in mice by quieting a deep brain reward c…
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Archaeology students at the University of Florida discovered the rare vessel at the site of the former Mission San Francisco de Potano, esta…
Scientists have uncovered new evidence that Venus may still be tearing itself apart from within. Advanced 3D simulations indicate that some …
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Each year, southern right whales migrate thousands of miles from their feeding grounds to breed, give birth and raise their young. Taking re…
A new analysis suggests the Sun holds far more silver than earlier estimates indicated. More advanced models of the solar atmosphere raised …
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Recently FDA-approved treatments work to clear clumps of the protein amyloid beta in the brain. A drug that instead goes after tangles of th…
Sweden could become an important source of rare earth elements needed for magnets and green technologies. Instead of extracting one target m…
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Museum officials hope visitors will appreciate the gilded hall, conceived by Louis XIV more than 360 years ago, for its history and ornament…
China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter captured a faint but remarkable view of 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar comet raced past Mars. The images reveal its …
A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged. Analyses place …
The longevity-linked APOE2 gene appears to protect brain cells by reducing DNA damage and helping neurons recover from stress. The finding c…
Fossils discovered in Japan more than two decades ago have finally been identified as a new genus and species of giant salamander. Limnospon…