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- Life
Climate change may leave many mammals homeless
In some places over the next century, projected warming threatens the survival of more than one in three species.
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Retinal implants could restore partial vision
In lab tests on rat retinas, a photovoltaic chip helps display images through special goggles.
- Life
Genes may influence body’s bacteria
Specific DNA variants have been found to be associated with the types of microbes that colonize a person’s body.
- Life
Gene appears linked with a person’s daily rhythms
Variations could play a role in determining time of death, or help shift workers better adapt.
- Humans
Maya wall calendar discovered
Classic-era structure displays rare calculations of lunar and planetary cycles.
- Astronomy
Sun’s shock wave goes missing
Spacecraft observations redraw astronomers’ ideas about the local stellar environment.
- Life
Culture results when chimps get cracking
Adjacent groups in Africa follow different traditions when it comes to opening nuts.
- Earth
Big Antarctic ice sheet appears doomed
Warming climate is expected to trigger the sudden retreat of a partially floating glacier on the continent’s western side by 2100.
- Health & Medicine
Procedure offers hope in type 1 diabetes
A new approach restored adequate, lasting insulin production in seven of 12 mice tested.
- Health & Medicine
Rare neurons found in monkeys’ brains
Cells linked to empathy and consciousness in primates may offer clues to human self-awareness.
- Space
More than one way to explode a star
New observations confirm two leading theories of type 1a supernova production.
