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‘Thunder beast’ fossils show how some mammals might have gotten big

For some mammals, the evolutionary path to gigantism after the dinosaurs’ demise

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A reappearing supernova offers a new measure of the universe’s expansion

A cosmic camera hog is helping astronomers figure out the rate of

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Science explains why shouting into the wind seems futile

Shouting into the wind isn’t so ineffective after all. The idiom is

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The new human pangenome could help unveil the biology of everyone

More than 20 years after people got a peek at the first

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A flower-shaped soft robot could make brain monitoring less invasive

A tiny, flexible machine might one day help neuroscientists eavesdrop on electrical

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Ancient giant eruptions may have seeded nitrogen needed for life

Millions of years ago, giant volcanic eruptions in what’s now Turkey and

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How Pythagoras turned math into a tool for understanding reality

If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your

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San Francisco airport will monitor plane waste for COVID-19 variants

International travelers can now contribute valuable data to COVID-19 surveillance efforts in

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Why you shouldn’t use magnets when looking for meteorites

It’s time to drop the magnets, meteorite hunters. The commonly used method

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50 years ago, enzyme injections showed promise for treating a rare disease

Excerpt from the April 28, 1973 issue of Science News Today, several

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