Long considered loners, many marsupials may have complex social lives
Marsupials may have richer social lives than previously thought. Generally considered loners, the pouched animals have a wide diversity of social relationships that have...
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Pollution mucks up the lungs’ immune defenses over time
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Carvings on Australia’s boab trees reveal a generation’s lost history
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Louis Pasteur’s devotion to truth transformed what we know about health and disease
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Some Maya rulers may have taken generations to attract subjects
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At a long COVID clinic, here’s how doctors are trying to help one woman who is struggling
Listen to this story about long COVID realities Click here for a full audio version of this story, read by Science News staff writer...
The pristine Winchcombe meteorite suggests that Earth’s water came from asteroids
Late in the evening of February 28, 2021, a coal-dark space rock about the size of a soccer ball fell through the sky over...
Why dandelion seeds are so good at spreading widely
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