Scalpel, Forceps, Bone Drill: Modern Medicine in Ancient Rome by ...
A 2,000-year-old collection of medical tools, recently unearthed in Hungary, offer insight into the practices of undaunted, much-maligned […]
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Cosmic Luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Broke Down by ...
A review of archives suggests that efforts to protect Earth from contamination by any organism brought back from […]
Scientists Discover a Virgin Birth in a Crocodile by Veronique ...
The act of reptile reproduction suggests that dinosaurs and pterosaurs may have been capable of parthenogenesis, too, much […]
A Paralyzed Man Can Walk Naturally Again With Brain and ...
In a new study, researchers describe a device that connects the intentions of a paralyzed patient to his […]
A Saber-Toothed Predator From Long Before Evolution Came Up With ...
As an extinction crisis wiped out species at the end of the Permian Period, a predatory species emerged […]
Sought Out by Science, and Then Forgotten by Jennie Erin ...
Four decades ago, medical researchers reached out to ailing families in Colombia for insights into Huntington’s disease. Scientists […]
What Number Comes Next? The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Knows. ...
The “mathematical equivalent to the FBI’s voluminous fingerprint files” turns 50 this year, with 362,765 entries (and counting). […]
‘Digital Twin’ of the Titanic Shows the Shipwreck in Stunning ...
Researchers hope new 3-D images will provide clues about what happened to the ocean liner when it sank […]
Study Offers New Twist in How the First Humans Evolved ...
A new genetic analysis of 290 people suggests that humans emerged at various times and places in Africa. […]
Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air. Privacy ...
Environmental DNA research has aided conservation, but scientists say its ability to glean information about human populations and […]