Politics
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Chimpanzees Go Through Menopause, Too
For biologists, menopause is baffling. If natural selection favors genes that produce more descendants, why don’t women remain fertile their…
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Billions of Years Ago, Venus May Have Had a Key Earthlike Feature
A new study makes the case that the solar system’s hellish second planet once may have had plate tectonics that…
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo
A modified version of the classic mirror test suggested that roosters recognize their reflections.
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A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars
The discovery helped to show why the red planet’s core is not as large as earlier estimates had suggested it…
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See You Later, Not-an-Alligator
Sidney Godfrey was sitting in the passenger seat of a truck slowly cruising over a levee one night in 2018.…
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These Starfish Face Extinction. Scientists Are Helping Them Mate.
Scientists estimate that more than 5 billion sunflower sea stars, once a mighty predator, have died in the Pacific Ocean…
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The Holmdel Horn, a Cosmic Shrine in New Jersey, Stays Put
The radio telescope that discovered the Big Bang has survived a real estate battle — for now.
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Watch the Orionids Meteor Shower Reach Its Peak Tonight
On any given night, far from bright city lights, there’s a chance that you’ll see a beautiful streak shoot across…
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If You’ve Ever Heard a Voice That Wasn’t There, This Could Be Why
With a ghostly finger in a lab, researchers coaxed people to hear phantom voices.
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These Amphibians Have a Taste for Their Mom’s Skin
Caecilians are the first amphibians known to pass on their microbiomes to their offspring.