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Alaskapox virus renamed to avoid stigmatizing state and hurting tourism
First human fatality from virus prompts new name: borealpox
Satellite signals can measure a forest’s moisture—and its ability to survive
New approach could help scientists figure out how well forests will adapt to climate change and other threats
Modern Blackfoot people descend from an ancient ice age lineage
A new study of historic and modern genomes may help tribes protect ancestral lands and water rights
Muscle cramp compound may drive deadly wasting in cancer patients
Excess lactate may cause people to lose significant amounts of fat and muscle—a condition known as cachexia
Global push to put natural history collections online gets major U.K. boost
London’s Natural History Museum gets nearly $200 million to digitize many millions of specimens, while U.S. scientists look on with envy
Population tipping point could arrive by 2030
Study estimates global fertility will drop below replacement level years earlier than others predict
‘Now we know where the dead went.’ Did grave robbers plunder battlefields?
Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues
U.S. dairy farm worker infected as bird flu spreads to cows in five states
Unexpected H5N1 outbreaks in cattle raise difficult questions about how to protect herds and people
In a bold bid to avoid open-access fees, Gates foundation says grantees must post preprints
Foundation’s move leaves questions about how to fund peer review
Just-departed head of DOE science wing discusses successes and barriers
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe pushed for more inclusive research and a focus on climate
How a ‘rogue’ chunk of DNA scrambled the bird family tree
One inverted genome region spent millions of years frozen in time, obscuring the true history of avian evolution
Rare wooden artifacts showcase the smarts of early Neanderthals
Complex tools from 300,000-year-old deposit at Schöningen in Germany point to a “wood age”
Utah flouts FDA with law greenlighting placental stem cell therapies
Measure declares that regulatory agency can be ignored and patients given unapproved treatments
Laser mapping spots ant colonies in dense forest
Approach could help scientists spot invasive species cheaply and quickly
Anthropologists take up arms against ‘race science’
At their annual meeting, biological anthropologists began to build a playbook to thwart racist misuse of research
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Early-career researchers lament potential loss of Europe’s largest transdisciplinary science conference
The future of the biennial ESOF meeting is uncertain after parent organization declares bankruptcy
Bone marrow transplants spread Alzheimer’s-like disease in mice, controversial study reports
Experts reject claims that the findings demonstrate “Alzheimer’s disease transmission” in mice, and that human transplant recipients are at risk
Have scientists finally made sense of Hawking’s famous formula for disorder in a black hole?
Theorists claim to derive the landmark equation from the bare definition of entropy, but not everyone is convinced
A muon collider could revolutionize particle physics—if it can be built
The radical new machine might be built faster and cost less than an equivalent conventional atom smasher, boosters say
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