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Catching an opiate buzz may have been much more common in Ancient Egypt than we…

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Catching an opiate buzz may have been much more common in Ancient Egypt than we…

While there are many useful questions to ask when encountering a new robot, “can I eat it” is generally not one of them. I say ‘generally,’ because edible robots are actually a thing—and not just edible in the sense that you can…

The southern tip of South America was one of the last regions of the world to be populated by modern humans, but the early history of settlement has remained murky.
A new study by Harvard researchers sheds new light on this mystery with the…

Can muscle tissue be 3D-printed in outer space to improve astronaut health? This is what a recent study published in Advanced Science hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how human tissue can…

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A new scientific mission coordinated by the Superintendency of the…

Automation of high-speed, high quality DNA purification with sbeadex™…

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For years, an intense debate has raged about the origins of animal life on…

Ancient RNA from Yuka, a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost, can offer new biological insights into the Ice Age animal’s life.
Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National Museum in Prague