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New Result Casts Doubt on ‘Cosmic Dawn’ Claim
The first major attempt to replicate striking evidence of the ‘cosmic dawn’—the appearance of the Universe’s first stars 180 million…
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Mathematicians Protest Russia Hosting Major Conference
As Ukrainian researchers have feared for their lives and careers after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, mathematicians have been grappling over…
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The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Screens brighten with the flow of words. Perhaps they are emails, hastily scrawled on smart devices, or emoji-laden messages exchanged…
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Potato farmers conquer a devastating worm—with paper made from bananas
Potato cyst nematodes are a clever pest. These microscopic worms wriggle through the soil, homing in the roots of young…
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Covid-19 news: Northern Ireland lifts remaining legal restrictions
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal…
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Humans Find AI-Generated Faces More Trustworthy Than the Real Thing
When TikTok videos emerged in 2021 that seemed to show “Tom Cruise” making a coin disappear and enjoying a lollipop,…
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Gene-edited wheat resists dreaded fungus without pesticides
Powdery mildew certainly sounds unappealing, but for wheat farmers the fungus can mean a serious hit to the pocketbook. It…
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Machine builds druglike organic molecules in a snap
Organic chemistry, one of science’s most grueling disciplines, is poised to get a whole lot easier. Six years ago, a…
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We Desperately Need to Modernize Climate Change Emissions Tracking
At the latest COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, young people from around the world were loudly protesting from the sidelines…
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Botched construction project damaged important dinosaur track site in Utah, paleontologists say
Paleontologists were dismayed this week to learn that early Cretaceous dinosaur prints at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite near Moab,…
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