The long-forgotten remains of a giant wombat-like animal that roamed Australia twenty-five million years ago has revealed an all new family of ancient marsupials
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A year on, first patient to get gene editing for sickle cell disease is thriving
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Blowing bubbles: Soapy spheres pop pollen on fruit trees
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The boring billion - The world before plate tectonics
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Jurassic Park dinosaurs illustrated with modern science
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British farmers need all the help science can offer. Time to allow gene editing
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Type A blood converted to universal donor blood with help from bacterial enzymes
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Coronaviruses are extremely widespread in wild animals bred for food in Vietnam, with the wildlife supply chain quickly spreading those viruses to uninfected animals, preliminary research shows
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The biology and people of Madagascar
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The search for the world’s simplest animal: For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely
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Every Jurassic Park dinosaur illustrated with modern science
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How Europeans evolved white skin
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No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong
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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
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Darkling Beetles: Daringly dynamic
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Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image sleuthing
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More than thirty million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America
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A Google plan to wipe out mosquitoes appears to be working
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Australian scientists have made a test to check who is likely to develop coronavirus
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Shimmering schools of fish have dazzled scientists for centuries with their synchronized maneuvers. Now, high-speed video is revealing how—and why—they do it
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Physical force alone spurs gene expression, study reveals
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What’s a virus, anyway? Part 1: The bare-bones basics.
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World-first tool to help medicos detect COVID-19 could save 'thousands of lives'
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Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic
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Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial
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Microbial life has been found deep in Earth's crust beneath the ocean floor
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New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic
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Testing the efficacy of homemade masks: Would they protect in an influenza pandemic?
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An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins
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Melbourne researchers have mapped immune responses from one of Australia’s first novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, showing the body’s ability to fight the virus and recover from the infection
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Scientists successfully created a cybernetic neural network
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21-yr-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands – intergender and interrace double-hand transplant
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Coronavirus COVID-19 models are starting to give us an idea of what a pandemic would look like, but there's still so much we don't know
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"Both studies ... sought to pin down how many times the human brain oscillates in and out of focus per minute."
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Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time
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Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19
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This marsupial, the swamp wallaby, is the only animal that's always pregnant
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Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth
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Upside-down jellyfish lob tiny grenades to kill prey
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'Ghost' DNA from unknown ancestors found in West Africans
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Beyond identical or fraternal: Six rare types of twins
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Dopamine and temporal difference learning: A fruitful relationship between neuroscience and AI
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New Coronavirus Protease Structure Available
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A British cobbler had his thumb replaced with a big toe. He’d lost the digit while mending a shoe, but is now back at work with a toe grafted onto his hand.
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Scientists just used a supercomputer to make a living organism from scratch
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The real experiments that inspired Frankenstein
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Australians are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated.
A news article: Patients suffer invasive treatments for harmless cancers The study itself: Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
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Genetically modify bacteria in three simple steps - Heat shock
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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
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New microscopy technique shows cells’ 3D ultrastructure in new detail
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