Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.
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A petition asking for online, readable publication of all government-funded research is making its way to the White House.
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Two 9,000-year-old skeletons will be held by University of California, San Diego, officials—rather than turned over to American Indians for reburial—until a lawsuit is settled.
Human-specific duplications of a gene involved in brain development may have contributed to our species’ unique intelligence.
A lack of methodological detail in the published literature threatens the foundation of scientific discourse.
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