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Indigenous people may have left the Amazon before Europeans arrived
By Karina Shah Forest regrowth in the Amazon basin before AD 1350 suggests people had left the region Stefan Huwiler/imageBROKER/Alamy…
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Wild horses and donkeys dig desert wells that boost biodiversity
By Karina Shah A donkey digging a well E. Lundgren Feral horses and donkeys in the Sonoran desert in North…
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Driving for a difference
I was in the second year of my Ph.D. program when a colleague asked what I would do if I…
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Electric field control of natural optical activity in a multiferroic helimagnet
An optically active spiral The material cupric oxide exhibits magnetoelectric coupling, meaning that its magnetic properties can be controlled by…
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A widespread pathway for substitution of adenine by diaminopurine in phage genomes
Biosynthesis and replication, from A to Z Four nucleobases. adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T), are usually…
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One-dimensional self-assembly of curved NGs
Graphical representation of a nanographene fiber with a pitched double helix CREDIT: KATO ET AL., J. AM. CHEM. SOC. 143,…
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Early emergence
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We’ve measured the size of Venus’s planetary core for the first time
By Jonathan O’Callaghan Venus has a core about the same size as Earth’s Olekcii Mach/Alamy Venus has a core that…
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Japanese bay full of fish scales could mark start of the Anthropocene
By Adam Vaughan Sardine scales could help define the Anthropocene Lisa Top/Alamy A bay in south-west Japan could become the…
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Once a Covid hotspot, Italian village now intrigues researchers with ‘super-immune’ cases
LONDON — Paola Bezzon thought her sniffles in December were just a seasonal cold until a serology test months later…
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