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Charles Darwin's theory of evolution ‘misunderstood' for 200 years: ‘Not what he meant'
21 hours ago | Daily Express
CHARLES DARWIN's theory of evolution has been "absolutely" misunderstood, according to two scientists, who say the modern interpretation is "not what he meant at all".
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Research and Teaching
1 day ago | Harvard
Cosmic evolution; interdisciplinary science; complexity science; science education
Dr. Eric J. Chaisson is an American astrophyscist at Harvard University in Cambridge...
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The Brazil SARS-CoV-2 variant - what we know so far
2 days ago | Science Media Centre
The emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern Lineage P.1 is growing rapidly in Brazil, and several cases have now also been confirmed in the UK. A new preprint study from...
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Evolution of aerosol under moist and fog conditions in a rural forest environment: insights from high resolution aerosol mass spectrometry
6 days ago | Harvard
Jie Zhang, Sara Lance, Joseph Marto, Yele Sun, Matthew Ninneman, Brian A. Crandall, Junfeng Wang, Qi Zhang, and James J. Schwab. 2020. “ Evolution of aerosol under moist and...
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Did an ancient magnetic pole flip change life on Earth? - podcast
9 days ago | The Guardian
What would it be like if the Earth's magnetic pole switched? Migrating animals and hikers would certainly need to reset their compasses, but could it play real havoc with life...
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The State of Cloud Native Security Report
10 days ago | Reg Whitepapers
As the engine that powers business, science, education, government and so many other human endeavors, computing has evolved enormously over the past few decades - and that...
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Why do humans struggle to think of ourselves as animals? - podcast
15 days ago | The Guardian
The pandemic has demonstrated why humans are ultimately an impressive species. From monitoring the genetic evolution of Sars-CoV-2 to devising vaccines in record time, we have...
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First million-year-old DNA extracted from Siberian mammoth teeth
15 days ago | New Scientist
For the first time, DNA more than a million years old has been obtained from ancient animal remains - and it drastically alters the story of mammoth evolution
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Million-year-old mammoth genomes set record for ancient DNA
15 days ago | The Guardian | 5 articles
DNA from teeth found in Siberia permafrost the oldest yet sequenced, pushing science into ‘deep time' Teeth from mammoths buried in the Siberian permafrost for more than a...
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Human mobility and weather effects on the Chinese COVID-19 epidemic
15 days ago | Harvard
Poirier C, Mooring T, Linz M, Tatem A, Lai S, and Santillana M. In Preparation. “ Human mobility and weather effects on the Chinese COVID-19 epidemic ”. Abstract The novel...
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