Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is known both for its rich record of early human fossils and for intense volcanic activity…
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A remarkably preserved fossil from Argentina is helping scientists sharpen the picture of how snakes evolved. The specimen belongs to…
Physicists have used a machine learning approach to reveal unexpected details about how particles interact in complex systems. Their work…
Researchers at McGill University and the Douglas Institute have discovered that two distinct types of brain cells function differently in…
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Colorectal cancer is among the most common cancers in Western countries and remains a major cause of cancer-related deaths. While…
A long-standing puzzle involving dozens of unusually small dinosaur fossils has finally been resolved. Specimens once believed to represent a…