A network of ancient Roman roads converges neatly with satellite images of the Earth at night. A heat map of 15th-century bubonic plague outbreaks bears an eerie resemblance to Europe’s early COVID-19 hot spots. Mapping Past Societies, a free…
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Meet Lokiceratops, a newly discovered species of horned dinosaur
A newfound dinosaur species may not have been burdened with the glorious purpose of Loki — but it did bear an impressive set of horns reminiscent of the helmet of the trickster god of Norse mythology.
Fossils of the new specimen,…
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A railroad of cells | ScienceDaily
Looking under the microscope, a group of cells slowly moves forward in a line, like a train on the tracks. The cells navigate through complex environments. A new approach by researchers involving the Institute of Science and Technology Austria…
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Could Humans Survive The Asteroid Impact That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs? » ScienceABC
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It is widely believed that the extinction of the dinosaurs was due to a massive asteroid impact. In this article, we will investigate if humans could survive a similar event.
The…
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Does AI help humans make better decisions? — Harvard Gazette
Should artificial intelligence be used to improve decision-making in the court of law? According to a new working paper, not only does one example of an AI algorithm fail to improve the accuracy of judicial calls, on its own the technology fares…
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Tracking entwined histories of malaria, humans — Harvard Gazette
Today, Malaria represents a major public health problem across much of the globe, killing more than 600,000 people annually and infecting another 250 million. It is a disease that has been around for millions of years and is undeniably…
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Child sacrifices at famed Maya site were all boys, many closely related
Genetic clues have unveiled a type of ritual child sacrifice at an ancient Maya site that consisted only of young boys, often chosen as closely related pairs that included twins.
The discovery stems from a burial of more than 100…
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Want to make robots more agile? Take a lesson from a rat. — Harvard Gazette
The effortless agility with which humans and animals move is an evolutionary marvel that no robot has yet been able to closely emulate. To help probe the mystery of how brains control and coordinate it all, Harvard neuroscientists have created a…
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Peers crucial in shaping boys’ confidence in math skills
Boys are good at math, girls not so much? A study from the University of Zurich has analyzed the social mechanisms that contribute to the gender gap in math confidence. While peer comparisons seem to play a crucial role for boys, girls’…
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Earth exposed to interstellar cloud millions of years ago, says study — Harvard Gazette
Call it the Milky Way mystery.
Evidence of a long-ago collision involving the Earth was there in the form of specific radioactive isotopes deposited across the Earth and Moon. There were, however, skeptics.
But now researchers have tracked…
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