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Researchers read the marks of intense warfare and conquest in the genes of ancient native North Americans.
Researchers are working to understand how often-colorless biological nanostructures give rise to some of the most spectacular technicolor displays in nature.
Domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals every year, making them a top threat to US wildlife.
A proposal to simulate all of Earth’s ecosystems is exposing a rift between small and big ecology.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
The second example of storing digital data in DNA affirms its potential as a long-term storage medium.
Scientists provide evidence for the existence of four-stranded human DNA, which has previously only been theorized and synthesized.
A drug applied to the ears of deaf mice has prompted the regrowth of noise-damaged hair cells and resulted in slight improvements in the animals’ hearing.
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