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Letter From Scientists: Investigate the Origins of COVID-19 More investigation is needed to determine the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, say Jesse Bloom, Alina Chan, Ralph Baric, David Relman and…
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Close-up of an Anolis lizard with a rebreathing bubble on its snout. Credit: Lindsey Swierk A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto has shown that Anolis lizards,…
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Monsignor Janusz Urbańczyk, Holy See’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) addressed a meeting on media freedom on Thursday.
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(RNS) — Sixteen imprisoned Jehovah’s Witnesses were released in Turkmenistan along with about 1,000 others following a pardon by the president of the predominantly Muslim country. The unexpected move came…
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Supercomputer simulations at Los Alamos National Laboratory demonstrated that the G form of SARS-CoV-2, the dominant strain of the virus causing COVID-19, mutated to a conformation that allows it to…
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A team of scientists compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by IUCN as a separate, Critically Endangered species from African savannah elephants. Credit:…
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Traces of beeswax were detected in 3500 year-old clay pots like this. Credit: Peter Breunig, Goethe University Frankfurt Scientists at Goethe University and University of Bristol (UK) find traces of…
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A baby bamboo shark born via artificial insemination. Credit: Photo by Jay Harvey, Aquarium of the Pacific It’s a tough time to be a shark. Pollution, industrialized fishing, and climate…
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The conflict in Yemen forced Asia El-Sayeed Ali and her family from her home in Aden’s Al Tawahi district, where there was active fighting, in 2015. Today, she works at…
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Facial reconstruction of individual identified through DNA analysis as John Gregory, HMS Erebus. Credit: Diana Trepkov/ University of Waterloo With a living descendant’s DNA sample, a team of researchers have…
