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Researchers are using the gene-editing tool to boost the fruit’s defences and prevent the extinction of a major commercial variety.

Preserved microorganisms have been found encased in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks, confirming that single-celled life was thriving early in Earth’s history

Half-a-billion-year-old creature challenges theory that animals burst onto the scene in an abrupt event known as the Cambrian explosion.

16,000-year-old artefacts discovered in Idaho could be the oldest ever found on the continent.

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Nearly half a million genomes reveal five DNA markers associated with sexual behaviour — but none with the power to predict the sexuality of an individual.

Very few human prototypes or behaviors or diseases depend on a single gene.

Which version of a protein called Flower that is made affects cell survival.

Conventional therapies haven't done much good for my anxiety disorder

A 210,000-year-old skull is the oldest Homo sapiens fossil found outside Africa.

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Benefits go to our hearts, immune systems, mental states and more

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A March news release from the U.S. Geological Survey touted a new study that could be useful for infrastructure planning along the California coastline. It didn't mention the main finding of the research: that climate change threatens the state's economy.

What Snowball the parrot’s spontaneous moves teach us about ourselves

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That's one way to overlook a problem.

no emergency?

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"Dominionists" who want a theocratic America are pushing on many fronts. But they're not under the radar anymore

There is a difference between exercising religious beliefs and imposing them on others. Our Constitution fiercely protects the former and expressly prohibits the latter. – Rep. Joseph Kennedy III

It’s easy for significant stories to get lost in the sound and fury of Donald Trump’s frontal assault on American democracy, epitomized by his militarized co-opting of Washington’s Fourth of July celebration. As my interview with Angie Maxwell, co-author of “The Long Southern Strategy,” shows, Trump’s presidency was decades in the making, with racism, sexism. and fundamentalism all playing crucial roles. The forces that brought him to power are ultimately far more consequential than he is.

That’s why a cluster of recent developments involving questions of religious privilege deserve far more attention from the public and the media than they have received. These events reflect both the advancement of a theocratic, “dominionist” worldview that elevates the state-sanctified religious liberty of some at the obvious expense of others — and a rising tide of liberal, secular resistance.

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The religious right knows the path to extinction.