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Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi gives $5 million to Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute to advance AI-powered ...
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Trial now enrolling seeks to answer key question: Does adding chemotherapy to hormone therapy improve survival for metastatic pr...
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UC Santa Cruz receives California Department of Fish and Wildlife funding to assess health of state’s streams
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Boyce Thompson Institute awarded USDA grant to advance youth education in plant biotechnology across New York state
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Blood stem cells evade immunity in aplastic anemia by similar genetic mutations arising independently
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Dan M. Frangopol earns third ASCE Wellington Prize for infrastructure resilience research
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Here's Where Your Backyard Was 300 Million Years Ago
We may use terms like "grounded" and terra firma to mean stability and consistency but geology laughs at that notion. The next time you go on vacation, a new tool can show you how many places your vacation destination has been.
Paleolatitude.org can do that, right down to the movements of small tectonic and ‘lost continents’ now called Greater Adria, the Tethys Himalayas or Argoland, which we know as folded rocks in the mountain ranges of the Mediterranean, the Himalayas, and Indonesia.
Paleolatitude.org can do that, right down to the movements of small tectonic and ‘lost continents’ now called Greater Adria, the Tethys Himalayas or Argoland, which we know as folded rocks in the mountain ranges of the Mediterranean, the Himalayas, and Indonesia.
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Convergent Evolution Cheat Sheet Now 120 Million Years Old
One tenet of natural selection is a random walk of genes but nature may be more predictable than rolls of dice suggest. A new study of the mimicry of several distantly-related South American rainforest butterfly and moth species with similar wing color patterns that may warn away predators (it's not a costumed bluff, the moths and butterflies are actually toxic to birds) found that they reused the same two genes - ivory and optix - to evolve near identical color patterns.
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