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CRISPR therapy for high cholesterol shows promise in early trial

Using a CRISPR-guided technique called "base editing," scientists edited the genes of liver cells in 10 people's bodies.

Chimpanzees Experience Menopause, Similar To Humans, Study Finds

Chimpanzees Experience Menopause, Similar To Humans, Study Finds

New research reveals that female chimpanzees go through a menopausal transition, shedding light on the evolution of menopause in primates.

Scientific journal editor fired for sharing Onion article about Israel-Hamas war

Scientific journal editor fired for sharing Onion article about Israel-Hamas war

‘They’re going to alienate and have alienated a huge part of the community: people who don’t think it’s bad to express political opinions that not everybody agrees with,’ Michael Eisen said after sacking

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Israel-Hamas war: What is the impact of violent images on our mental health?

Since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, social media has been flooded with gruesome images of unparalleled brutality. These videos are continuously shared online, leaving none of us indifferent. But what is the impact of watching violent footage on our mental health? We discuss this with our Science editor…

How bat genomes provide insights into immunity and cancer

The COVID-19 pandemic cast a bright spotlight on the habits of bats. Over the years, researchers have unearthed significant insights by sequencing the genomes of many bat species.

The story of Svetlana Mojsov, and the controversy around revolutionary diabetic drugs | Explained

Serbian chemist Svetlana Mojsov is fighting to have her work recognised for discovering a revolutionary diabetic drug. Who is she? What was her contribution to discovering GLP-1?

A New Book Reveals the Hardships And Systemic Biases Many Women in STEM Still Face

Engineer and science communicator Lisa M. P. Munoz's new book shines a spotlight on more than a dozen scientists who’ve combatted gendered and racial biases.

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Students understand calculus better when the lessons are active

Students understand calculus better when the lessons are active

College students learn more calculus in an active learning course in which students solve problems during class than in a traditional lecture-based course. That’s according to a peer-reviewed study my colleagues and I published in Science. We also found that college students better understood complex calculus concepts and earned better…

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Oldest evidence of humans in Americas confirmed by new research

Oldest evidence of humans in Americas confirmed by new research

New research shows that fossil footprints discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico's White Sands National Park date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago

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Fossil footprints in New Mexico suggest humans have been here longer than we thought

Fossil footprints in New Mexico suggest humans have been here longer than we thought

A new study of fossil footprints in White Sands National Park bolsters the argument that humans may have lived in North America longer than thought.

Oldest evidence of humans in Americas confirmed by new research

Oldest evidence of humans in Americas confirmed by new research

New research shows that fossil footprints discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico's White Sands National Park date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago

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Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being the oldest sign of humans in Americas

Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being the oldest sign of humans in Americas

New research shows that fossil footprints discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico's White Sands National Park date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago

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A Disputed Paper Claimed Humans Came to North America 23,000 Years Ago — It Just Got Backup

A Disputed Paper Claimed Humans Came to North America 23,000 Years Ago — It Just Got Backup

A new paper looks at two other ways to date footprints that could be the first human tracks in North America.

'Eve' author says medicine often ignores female bodies. 'We've been guinea pigs'

'Eve' author says medicine often ignores female bodies. 'We've been guinea pigs'

Author Cat Bohannon says there's a "male norm" in science that prioritizes male bodies. Female bodies have been left out of countless clinical studies, and research is only just starting to catch up.

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Do Social Media Algorithms Polarize Us? Maybe Not.

A series of studies suggest it's not algorithms that are driving political polarization, ignorance, or toxicity online.

Nature to retract major Ranga Dias superconductivity paper: reports

University of Rochester physicist Ranga P. Dias faces a potential third retraction of a paper related to room-temperature superconductors. In a letter, his co-authors on the paper have asked for it to be retracted due to data integrity concerns. The journal that published the paper in March 2023, Nature, is…

The Webb Telescope Finds Key Ingredient for Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa

Observations with JWST’s NIRSpec instrument found frozen crystals of carbon dioxide on the ice covering the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa.

Science This Week | NASA’s OSIRIS-REx to bring back asteroid fragments, no signals from Vikram and Pragyan and more

Check out The Hindu’s science wrap featuring top 7 stories on new discoveries, findings, and studies in the scientific world from this week.

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She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity

This theoretical physicist and mathematician drops a new video several times a month, dispensing her dry wit and pithy wisdom to a loyal fan base of nerds across the internet.

Study traces Turkey quake to interrupted ‘chat’ between fault lines

A new paper in Science used kinematic slip inversion and fault-property modelling to find that the Turkey-Syria earthquake could be traced to a seismic cascade over the east and the north Anatolian fault lines, and that these lines had also been in constant dialogue through the exchange of stress.

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UK to rejoin EU's Horizon science programme following post-Brexit row

THE UK is to return to the European Union’s £85 billion Horizon science research programme following a post-Brexit row.

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UK expected to rejoin EU’s Horizon science programme

The Government looks set to announce Britain’s membership of the scheme which it was frozen out of in a post-Brexit row.

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Science facility which kickstarted UK’s Covid drug development gets £500m

The Diamond Light Source, which is 10,000 times more powerful than a traditional microscope, has made ground-breaking health discoveries.

Reroute railway track running through Assam gibbon sanctuary, suggest scientists

Primatologists have suggested rerouting a 1.65-km-long railway track that has divided an eastern Assam Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary dedicated to the western hoolock gibbon into two unequal parts. “The sanctuary has become a ‘forest island’, having lost connectivity with surrounding forest patches. Since gibbons are exclusively arboreal animals inhabiting the forest’s upper…

Tiny But Mighty Eruptions on the Sun Could Explain a Big Space Mystery

A new study is helping demystify how the solar wind emerges from holes in the Sun.

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