The Collins Dictionary's word of the year for 2022 is "permacrisis." As accolades go, the managing director of Collins Learning, Alex Beecroft, has said that this one "sums up quite succinctly how truly awful 2022 has been ...
Economics & Business
Nov 14, 2022
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If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a "planet killer" asteroid named 2022 AP7.
Astronomy
Nov 2, 2022
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You are more likely to take a trip to the Moon than to see a microbe called Legendrea loyezae under a microscope. Nasa's Apollo program has sent a total of 24 people to the Moon between 1968 and 1972. Only four people (including ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2022
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The first genetic data from Paleolithic human individuals in the U.K.—the oldest human DNA obtained from the British Isles so far—indicates the presence of two distinct groups that migrated to Britain at the end of the ...
Archaeology
Oct 24, 2022
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The Black Death was the single greatest mortality event in recorded history, killing up to 50% of the European population in less than five years. New research from the University of Chicago, McMaster University, and the ...
Evolution
Oct 19, 2022
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Elemental nitrogen is essential to agriculture and industry. Today almost all the N atoms in artificial N-containing compounds come from NH3 that is mass produced from the Haber-Bosch process developed at the beginning of ...
Biochemistry
Oct 18, 2022
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As long as humans have been around, there have been pathogens to make us sick. Some have achieved infamy in human history—the bubonic plague, for example, or smallpox—and with modern technologies, scientists can time-travel ...
Evolution
Oct 17, 2022
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When the first modern humans arose in East Africa sometime between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, the world was very different compared to today. Perhaps the biggest difference was that we—meaning people of our species, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 10, 2022
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A giant kangaroo that once roamed on four legs through remote forests in the Papua New Guinea Highlands may have survived as recently as 20,000 years ago—long after large-bodied megafauna on mainland Australia went extinct, ...
Ecology
Oct 7, 2022
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When the first humans moved out of Africa, they carried their gut microbes with them. Turns out, these microbes also evolved along with them.
Evolution
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