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US firm says it brought back extinct dire wolves
They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively—they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a ...
Warnings issued, flights cancelled as strong winds whip north China
Residents in some areas were warned not to go outside as strong winds swept Beijing and parts of northern China on Saturday, ...
Scottish rowing brothers aim for record-breaking Pacific crossing
Three Scottish brothers have embarked on a mammoth journey from Peru hoping to set a record time for rowing across the ...
Drug pollution in water is making salmon take more risks
"Out of sight, out of mind" is how we often treat what is flushed down our toilets. But the drugs we take, from anxiety ...
Saturday Citations: Huge eruptions from a black hole; the largest-ever functional brain map; origins of human musicality
This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that the ...
Breaking a century-old physics barrier: Scientists achieve perfect wave trapping with simple cylinders
A joint research team has successfully demonstrated the complete confinement of mechanical waves within a single ...
'Internet of nature' helps researchers explore the web of life
A novel paper led by Dr. Ulrich Brose of the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich ...
CRISPR screen identifies EIF3D as critical regulator of stem cell pluripotency maintenance
A team of CiRA researchers has uncovered the crucial role of EIF3D—a protein translational regulator—in primed pluripotency.
Climate warming increases flood risks from rain-on-snow events in high mountain Asia, study finds
A recent study led by Prof. Chen Yaning from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of ...
Scientists find evidence of universal conformal invariance in diverse cellular movement
In a new Nature Physics study, researchers have provided evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological ...
Extinctions of Australian mammals have long been blamed on foxes and cats—but where's the evidence?
In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope ...
Gender equality at the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race has further to go
In rowing, "catching a crab" is when an oar gets stuck in the water, stopping the boat's momentum. Progress toward gender equality in the Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race has followed a similar rhythm, ...