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Rare fossils reveal 91 new species that survived ancient mass extinction
Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday.
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Google unveils AI tool probing mysteries of human genome
Google unveiled an artificial intelligence tool Wednesday that its scientists said would help unravel the mysteries of the human genome—and could one day lead to new treatments for diseases.
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It's one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one's path is uncertain
Winter’s brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what had been a toasty Florida peninsula and a powerful blizzard forecast that may strike the Atlantic coast.
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I bought “Remove Before Flight” tags on eBay in 2010—it turns out they’re from Challenger
Having a more complete history of these tags would help meet the accession requirements of some museums and, if approved, provide curators with the information they need to put the tags on display.
Reconnecting to…
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Antitrust crackdowns may reduce corporate know-how
Interlocking directorates—the practice of the same director sitting on the boards of competing companies—have long been identified with backroom deals and corporate collusion. In 1914, when antitrust laws began cracking down on the practice,…
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Google Gives Chrome an AI Side Panel and Lets Gemini Browse for You
Google is turning Chrome into something closer to a digital copilot.
In the next wave of Gemini updates rolling out, Google on Wednesday revealed a set of new AI-powered features coming directly to its browser, aimed at reducing the frustrations…
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Amazon to close most Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores in days
Amazon said this week that it was closing almost all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations within days as it narrows its focus on food delivery and its grocery chain, Whole Foods Market.
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Extracellular vesicles manage to slip gene edits into Pneumocystis fungi
Pneumocystis is an unwieldy genus of fungal pathogens that cause severe pneumonia, particularly in immunocompromised people like those with HIV/AIDs or who have received organ transplants. However, the mechanisms by which it infects a host…
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Whaling may have started 1,500 years earlier than already known
Whale hunting began far earlier — and much farther south — than scientists previously suspected.
Five-thousand-year-old whalebone harpoons and other artifacts along Brazil’s southern coast suggest that Indigenous communities
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