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This week in science news: Researchers from the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, Spain, digitally reconstructed the ribcages of four prehistoric Homo sapiens and theorize that climate influences ribcage evolution. A century after […]

Well, it’s July 12, which means (a) the Steam Summer Sale is over and (b) it’s really hot outside in the northeastern U.S. This week, researchers discovered a cool new fish and named it after […]

Over the last few centuries, the scientific method has established itself as a pretty useful tool.This article is brought to you by this site.

This week, biologists discovered a new cellular organelle that’s like “a new recycling center within the cell.” Wild-growing tomatoes in the Galápagos are de-evolving. And geologists at the University of Southampton detected deep Earth pulses […]

Eight American researchers have arrived at a university in southern France, as the country pushes to offer “science asylum” to US academics hit by federal research spending cuts under Donald Trump.This article is brought to […]

This week, medical researchers ruled out brainstem CT scanning alone for proof of neurologic death. Researchers at Yale presented new evidence that the brain stores and retrieves visuomotor associations in graph-like cognitive structures. And a […]

This week, the state of Florida reached a “startling milestone” in the effort to eradicate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. Archaeologists found the 6,000-year-old remains of a teen girl with cranial modification. And a […]

This week, Chinese researchers reported a nearly complete skull representing the first known sauropod species from East Asia. A team at the USDA identified viruses from a miticide-resistant parasitic mite causing honey bee colony collapses. […]

Scientists need skills in visual analysis and critical thinking, but these skills aren’t being taught or practiced nearly enough in our university classrooms.This article is brought to you by this site.

Experts searching for plane wreckage in Michigan’s Lake Superior found logs and rocks on the bottom but no debris from an aircraft that crashed nearly 60 years ago carrying three people on a scientific assignment.This […]