A new report suggests that efforts to promote equity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and math have a long way to go. Over the…
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& # 39; Getting Started & # 39; shows how bipedalism has led humans down a strange evolutionary path
First stepsJeremy DeSilvaHarper, $ 27.99 No other animal moves like us. That is very strange. Even among other two-legged species, no one walks with a…
Science on a missionNaomi OreskesUniv. of Chicago, $ 40 In 2004, Japanese scientists captured the first underwater images of a living giant squid, an almost…
Evidence is showing that an uncommon immune response is behind dangerous, but incredibly rare blood clots, associated with some COVID-19 vaccines. But the good news…
Helio: Should it be preserved? – Science News, April 17, 1971 To avoid some of the loss and provide a reserve for future needs, the…
An ancient coronavirus, or a closely related pathogen, caused an epidemic among the ancestors of present-day East Asians about 25,000 years ago, a new study…
Future Jurassic Park movies could feature a strange new beast in menagerie: a pterosaur nicknamed Monkeydactyl by its opposing thumbs. This Jurassic-period flying reptile may…
Neanderthal DNA recovered from cave mud reveals that these ancient humans spread across Eurasia in two different waves. Analysis of three-cave genetic material in two…
As our planet orbits the sun, it is thrown through clouds of extraterrestrial dust and several thousand tons of that material actually reach the Earth’s…
The Serengeti looks much like it did hundreds of years ago. Lions, hyenas and other major predators still lurk herds of wildebeest over a million…