News

  1. Space

    Still no Earths, but getting closer

    Two newly discovered planetary systems shed light on the likelihood of producing terrestrial planets.

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  2. Archaeology

    Big eats from a 12,000-year-old burial

    Middle Eastern villagers may have feasted around a shaman’s grave 12,000 years ago, before the dawn of agriculture.

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  3. Earth

    Primordial bestiary gets an annex

    A classic Canadian fossil trove extends to thinner deposits, geologists find.

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  4. Plants

    Evergreen source of Tamiflu

    Pine and spruce needles brim with flu-drug precursor.

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  5. Physics

    Very tiny, very cool

    Physicists outline a scheme to build a ‘refrigerator’ that can cool to near absolute zero and is based on only a few particles.