News
- Animals
Squeaky chimp sex, or not
Female chimps tend toward silent sex when the other girls could overhear.
- Space
Rocky cores form first
A theorist says new extrasolar findings prove that the standard model of planet formation is correct.
- Health & Medicine
Cooking cancer cells
A new technique combining antibodies, carbon nanotubes and near-infrared light holds promise for treating malignancies, scientists report.
- Archaeology
Green reapers
Agriculture's rise sparked widespread use of green stone beads as fertility charms and as protection against supernatural forces, scientists propose.
- Planetary Science
Surprise found in comet dust
Scientists find an odd mineral that could offer clues to the solar system's origins.
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- Health & Medicine
Good news for coffeeholics
When lifestyle factors like smoking were taken into account, coffee drinkers had lower death rates than their non-drinking peers, according to a study of more than 120,000 people.
- Health & Medicine
Keep at it
Moderate exercise can extend survival for overweight and obese men who have diabetes.
- Astronomy
Otherworldly triple play
Astronomers have discovered the first known system of three superEarths beyond the solar system.
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- Astronomy
Not a ripple
Another null result for gravitational waves. But findings from LIGO still reveal new information about the Crab Pulsar.
- Archaeology
Resurrection of a biblical tree
Date palm pit found at Masada sprouts at age 2,000, becoming the oldest known seed to germinate.
