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Nature's Engine Slows: Species Turnover Down by a Third
A landmark global study finds that the rate at which species replace each other in ecosystems has slowed by roughly one-third since the 1970s — a para...
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A landmark global study finds that the rate at which species replace each other in ecosystems has slowed by roughly one-third since the 1970s — a para...
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Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has transformed HIV prevention. Here's how it works — from blocking the virus in your bloodstream to the breakthrough...
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PrEP medications have transformed HIV prevention from near-certain infection to near-zero risk. Here's how these drugs block the virus—and why a new t...
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Scientists have identified a new marine fungus, Algophthora mediterranea, that parasitizes and destroys toxic algae responsible for harmful coastal bl...
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Scientists have discovered Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Black Death — in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep from the Ural Mountains, th...
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CAR T-cell therapy reprograms a patient's own immune cells to hunt and destroy cancer. Here's how this revolutionary treatment works, which cancers it...
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Killer whales look alike, but resident fish-eaters and mammal-hunting Bigg's orcas are so genetically and culturally distinct that researchers now arg...
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The exposome captures every environmental exposure a person encounters from conception to death — and scientists now believe it explains far more abou...
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Lazarus species are animals and plants once declared extinct that later turn up alive. Scientists explain why they vanish from the fossil record — and...
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Pancreatic cancer kills more than 90% of patients within five years of diagnosis. Here is why this disease is so uniquely difficult to detect, fight,...
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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the galaxy COSMOS2020-635829 at a distance of 8.5 billion light-years — the most distant "jellyfish galaxy...
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A landmark Nature study of over 2,000 insect species finds that rising temperatures could push half of Amazon lowland insects past their survival limi...
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