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Museum archives hold biological specimens that have been collected over years or even decades. Modern molecular analysis…
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Artificial intelligence is escalating the battle between spam senders and spam blockers. Recent advances could mean more…
Chemist David Liu explains how gene editing is paving the way to treating and even curing certain genetic diseases.
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Generative AI is designed to produce the unforeseen, but that doesn’t mean developers can’t predict the types of social…
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It’s not entirely accurate to say that you’re more likely to die in a car accident than in a plane crash. Chances are,…
This year’s Sierra snowpack is looking a lot like 1983’s, and that was a year of flooding and mudslide disasters. A…
Contrary to the idea that apes evolved their upright posture to reach for fruit in the forest canopy, the earliest known…
The aggressive efforts of social media platforms to police language have spawned a new lexicon meant to evade censors.
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Robots are already carrying out tasks in clinics, classrooms and warehouses. Designing robots that are more receptive to…
China has invested massively in its space capabilities in recent years and is now a major competitor with the US. But according…
Working with underwater robots, scientists show how deep sea mountains and fast currents between Antarctica and South America…