Babies tend to have the same probability to be born biologically male or or female — but family genetics could skew those odds in either direction. Credit: Waltraud Grubitzsch/dpa via Alamy
By sifting through an anonymized genealogy database,…
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On 27 February 1996, Japanese game designer Satoshi Tajiri released the first ever Pokémon games for the Nintendo Game Boy. What…
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NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why.
A new genetic analysis offers some ancient…
Recent advancements in climate research have shed light on a crucial element of global sea-level rise: the mass of water added to the oceans, primarily from melting land ice. A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy…
It’s not easy to find silver linings amid the rapid, human-driven destabilization of Earth’s climate—though that hasn’t stopped researchers from trying. One longstanding theory suggests that glacial melt could actually…
Astronomers have witnessed one of our universe’s biggest stars transforming into a rare stellar body, and the dramatic metamorphosis may be the prequel to a powerful supernova explosion that sees this star birth a black hole.
The doomed star in…
