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David Haskell brings readers through millions of years of botanical history for his latest book, How Flowers Made Our World ...

Centuries-old DNA that was found in these mummies belongs to an extinct viral lineage of smallpox that was brought across the ...

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Researchers are misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots to produce scientific literature. At least, that’s a new fear that some scientists have raised, citing a stark rise in ...

The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a ...

A private spacecraft launched to boost the decaying orbit of NASA’s Swift Observatory is now suffering from potentially ...

Many of these structures date to around C.E. 100–300, during the time of the Aquiry civilization, and may have been used for ...

New work explains how avocado trees coordinate a complex reproductive strategy, switching every day between male and female ...