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Space microbes mutated in orbit and evolved a shocking new power

Microbes that hitched a ride into orbit are not just surviving in space, they are changing in ways that give them startling ...
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Astronomers produce the sharpest map of dark matter in the universe

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...
Nature

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Anthropologists Recover DNA of Syphilis-Causing Bacterium Relative From 5,500-Year-Old Human Remains, the Earliest Ever Found

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...