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The human brain avoids taking unnecessary effort. When a person is reading, she strives to gain…

Tropical disease in medieval Europe revises the history of a pathogen related to syphilis

Plague was commonplace in medieval times, so finding its victims in a 15th century Lithuanian graveyard…

NASA Selects Astrobotic to Fly Water-Hunting Rover to the Moon

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Three ways blockchain could get the world to act against the climate crisis

The world has failed to halt global warming. Four years after the signing of the Paris…

Fossil tracks left by an ancient crocodile that 'ran like an ostrich'

Scientists are stunned to find that some ancient crocodiles may have moved around on two feet. …

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This hatchetfish hides from predators swimming in the shadowy depths below using a clever disguise. Glowing…

Exploring the diversity of cell gatekeepers could be the key to better crops

Scientists have shed new light on how the network of gatekeepers that controls the traffic in…

Housing instability undermines public health response to COVID-19 pandemic

A long-brewing crisis of housing instability in the U.S. threatens to mar the public health response…

Life on welfare isn't what most people think it is

When Americans talk about people receiving public assistance—food stamps, disability, unemployment payments and other government help—they…