When did our human ancestors arrive in Europe? 1.4-million-year-old artifacts made by hominids track their migration

When did our human ancestors arrive in Europe? 1.4-million-year-old artifacts made by hominids track their migration

Carolyn Johnson | Washington Post | 
An artifact-rich archaeological site in western Ukraine may be the oldest spot in Europe to contain evidence of early humans ...
Hairy questions: As scientists edge closer to resurrecting mammoths, a host of ethical and scientific issues arise

Hairy questions: As scientists edge closer to resurrecting mammoths, a host of ethical and scientific issues arise

Dino Grandoni | Washington Post | 
Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company based in Dallas, announced [March 6] that it has produced a line of Asian elephant ...
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Erectile dysfunction drug Viagra may help prevent brain aging

Teddy Amenabar | Washington Post | 
Viagra can be a wonder drug for men with erectile dysfunction, and now new research suggests it may also be ...
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Ozempic and body positivity: Inside the ‘industry-wide strategy to use plus-size influencers to sell injectable weight-loss medication’

Shane O'Neill | Washington Post | 
When Virgie Tovar got an email asking her to promote injectable weight-loss medications on her social media, she thought it was spam ...
Oysters have long been thought of as an aphrodisiac. Does science agree?

Oysters have long been thought of as an aphrodisiac. Does science agree?

Lindsey Bever | Washington Post | 
Experts say oysters do contain elements that may enhance sex drive, though there is no scientific evidence showing a direct ...
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Are frozen embryos children? Alabama high court thinks so

Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Washington Post | 
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled February 16 that frozen embryos are people and someone can be held liable for destroying ...
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Scans of 10,000 brains show dramatic memory benefits from just 4 minutes of daily exercise

Gretchen Reynolds | Washington Post | 
Exercising for 25 minutes a week, or less than four minutes a day, could help to bulk up our brains ...
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Ear-ringing tinnitus is unrelenting and untreatable. Here’s a new strategy on how to live with it

An innovative treatment offers hope to the millions of people who hear sounds that others don’t. Here’s how it works ...
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Political psychology: Democrats and Republicans exist on polarized extremes

Joel Achenbach | Washington Post | 
The United States, though politically fractious since its founding, is more polarized than ever, the rhetoric more inflammatory, the rage ...
3 billion years ago, a rock four times the size of Mt. Everest hit Earth. Here’s how this impact kick started the evolution of life

3 billion years ago, a rock four times the size of Mount Everest hit Earth. Here’s how this kickstarted evolution

Joel Achenbach | Washington Post | 
When Earth first formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago, lava lakes sizzled under a thick greenhouse atmosphere during the Hadean ...
‘Warning written in wood’: Analyzing 200-year-old tree reveals silent climate distress signal sent by one of Earth’s most enduring organisms

‘Warning written in wood’: 200-year-old tree reveals silent climate distress signal sent by one of Earth’s longest-living organisms

Cutting-edge techniques are allowing researchers to observe how the rings from long-lived trees form in real time ...
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Modernizing ancient techniques: How harnessing microbes could make alternative proteins more palatable

Allyson Chiu | Washington Post | 
There’s a growing category of foods using an age-old technique that experts say could be a dark horse in the ...
Space concerts: ‘What if traveling to space could yield incomparable beauty in the form of art and music?’

Galactic concerts: ‘What if traveling to space could yield incomparable beauty in the form of art and music?’

Bina Venkataraman | Washington Post | 
Within a decade, a trip off the planet could become as accessible as an airline ticket, and in 15-20 years, ...
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Sucralose, aspartame, stevia: With the use of sugar substitutes continuing to rise, questions mount about their impact on diets

Many people are cutting back on their sugar intake for health reasons. But the food industry has found another way ...
What are ‘detransitioners’ — and how are they affecting gender-affirming care laws across the US?

How ‘detransitioners’ are affecting gender-affirming care laws across the US

Molly Hennessy-Fiske | Washington Post | 
Dozens of detransitioners have gained prominence this year, suing the doctors and clinics from which they received care ...
Why African farmers fighting against notoriously low yields need innovation to survive inflation and starvation in a warming world

Why African farmers fighting against notoriously low yields need innovation to survive inflation and starvation in a warming world

Katharine Houreld | Washington Post | 
Rising temperatures mean large chunks of Africa are whipsawing between increasingly severe droughts and more frequent and intense cyclones, threatening ...
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‘We’ve got miraculous therapies for ‘bubble boy disease’ that don’t fit in anyone’s business model’: Mainstream care elusive for most patients because of high costs

Carolyn Johnson | Washington Post | 
Hataałii Tiisyatonii “HT” Begay was born with a form of severe combined immunodeficiency, or SCID, which meant he had virtually ...
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One woman, two uteruses, two separate pregnancies. How could this be possible?

Kyle Melnick | Washington Post | 
When Kelsey Hatcher visited her obstetrician for an ultrasound this year, she smiled when an image of a healthy fetus ...
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Viewpoint: Inflation and climate change prompt American farmers to assess agricultural practices

Agricultural policy has gotten caught up in culture wars that have snarled other aspects of American life ...
Slowing the fentanyl opioid epidemic: Accelerating research to develop vaccines to limit the impact of heroin, cocaine and nicotine raise hopes

Slowing the fentanyl opioid epidemic: Accelerating research on vaccines to limit impact of heroin, cocaine and nicotine raise hopes

David Ovalle | Washington Post | 
Research is accelerating as the nation grapples with an unprecedented drug crisis fueled chiefly by the synthetic opioid fentanyl ...
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Do rats have a sense of imagination?

Mark Johnson | Washington Post | 
Like humans, rats have the ability to imagine locations other than the place they're in, brain research shows ...
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Revising 10 fact-based perspectives on entrenched food myths: Gene editing is good, diet soda is fine, organics is not the answer

Tamar Haspel | Washington Post | 
I’ve been trying to suss out true and false to the best of my inevitably human, imperfect ability, and for ...
Aligned with the views of the new House Speaker Mike Johnson, two-thirds of Americans believe the Biblical creation myth or that God guided evolution, rejecting accepted science

Aligned with views of new House Speaker Mike Johnson, 60% of Americans believe Biblical creation myth or that God guided evolution

Philip Bump | Washington Post | 
A majority of Republicans say divine creation created humans; just under half of Democrats say that there was no divine ...
Defining death: Does the cessation of consciousness or the failure of key organs mark the end—and why it matters

Defining death: Does cessation of consciousness or the failure of key organs mark the end of life?

Peter Singer | Washington Post | 
Where is the line between life and death? Does the answer change if the person asking is not a philosopher ...
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Plant-to-plant communication: Trees can warn each other of impending danger. Here’s how

Kasha Patel | Washington Post | 
Real trees on our Earth can communicate and warn each other of danger — and a new study explains how ...
8 ways to help you sort social media misinformation and AI imagery

8 ways to help you identify social media misinformation and AI imagery

Heather Kelly | Washington Post | 
How do you know what to trust: There are some basic tools everyone should use when consuming breaking news online ...
Viewpoint: ‘Abortion tourism’—How DeSantis and other Republicans are trying to marginalize women who seek to end pregnancies

Viewpoint: ‘Abortion tourism’ — How DeSantis and other Republicans are trying to marginalize women who seek to end pregnancies

Monica Hesse | Washington Post | 
Republicans made it harder to get abortions in red states. Now they have a punchline for trivializing the journeys people ...
The search for the elusive angel shark and the growing bio-tracking, revolutionary field of environmental DNA

Search for elusive angel shark and growing revolutionary field of bio-tracking environmental DNA

Dino Grandoni | Washington Post | 
Today, with the Natural Marine Park of Cap Corse and Agriate, we can find rare sea life without having to ...
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