WASHINGTON—Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A...
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The little rodents' genes were edited to exhibit traits associated with a woolly mammoth genome—including fluffy, dirty-blonde fur. ......
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Today I unveil a fantastic new type of Sudoku invented by reader Alf Smith. Like all Sudoku, the digits from 1 to 9 must appear in all rows, columns and boxes. What’s different in this new variant, however, is that the starting grids have no number clues. Instead, some cells are coloured gold. The...
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Scientists have discovered a wild treatment that they say could protect astronauts from the copious amounts of space radiation they'd be exposed to during trips into deep space. In an effort to find new ways to protect cancer patients from the many side effects of radiation therapy, a group of...
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A malicious PyPi package effectively turned its users' systems "into an illicit network for facilitating bulk music downloads," writes The Hacker News. Though the package has been removed from PyPI, researchers at security platform Socket.dev say it enabled "coordinated, unauthorized music downloads...
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Firefly Aerospace landed its Blue Ghost spacecraft on the moon on Sunday.Moon landings were once exclusive to government agencies, but Firefly is now the second company to do it.The Blue Ghost mission, funded by NASA, includes experiments to study lunar dust and moon GPS. Firefly Aerospace became...
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Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago, according to new research. China’s Zhurong rover and its ground-penetrating radar detected the ancient shorelines when it operated from May 2021 to May 2022. The rover landed in Utopia Planitia, a...
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A Geneva research team has discovered an early warning sign of chemotherapy resistance in colorectal cancer. The researchers identified specific...
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