The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed down to its offspring. To suggest otherwise can provoke the ire of certain segments of…
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New dates on Chinese fossils raise question of how many times we left Africa
We typically think of Homo erectus as the first of our hominin ancestors to expand beyond Africa, along routes that our own species would retread 1.5 million years later. More to the point, many paleoanthropologists think…
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As Epstein Scandal Tightens, Trump Announces That He’s Releasing All Government Files About Alien Life
President Donald Trump has plenty of work to do to distract from a growing list of crises, from the release of the Epstein files, many of which have implicated him, to a brewing battle with the Supreme Court, which just declared his tariffs…
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AI Safety Meets the War Machine
When Anthropic last year became the first major AI company cleared by the US government for classified use—including military applications—the news didn’t make a major splash. But this week a second development hit like a cannonball: The…
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Nasa targets early March to send humans back around the Moon – BBC
- Nasa targets early March to send humans back around the Moon BBC
- NASA conducts second rocket fueling test that will decide when Artemis astronauts head to the moon AP News
- NASA eyes March 6 to launch 4 astronauts to the moon on Artemis II…
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‘You might uncover a lost world’
Spinosaurus mirabilis dinosaur Illustration by Dani Navarro for University of Chicago (and) Professor Paul Sereno with fossil – SWNS Scientists called “astonishing” the first indisputable evidence of a new species of Spinosaurus…
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Trump Elevates Glyphosate to National Defense Status Amid Safety Debate
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring glyphosate‑based herbicides like Roundup, along with elemental phosphorus, essential to national defense, even as the weedkiller faces lawsuits and scientific scrutiny…
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Threads posts can now be shared directly to your Instagram Story without leaving the app
Threads already has over 400 million monthly users, but Meta wants to push that number even higher. With the launch of a new Threads feature this week, the company is making it easier for Threads users to share posts on the app to their…
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Flexible force fields can protect our return to the moon
Lunar dust remains one of the biggest challenges for a long-term human presence on the moon. Its jagged, clingy nature makes it naturally stick to everything from solar panels to the inside of human lungs. And while we have some methods of…
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Will you notice this ad? New AI model predicts attention from content context
Researchers at the University of Maryland and Tilburg University in the Netherlands have produced an AI-driven innovation to reshape how marketers place digital ads. AdGazer, a predictive tool, evaluates both an advertisement and the media…
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