The Scientist
Research, evaluation, and the numbers under the claim — what a result actually establishes.
Peru's Ministry of Culture says an adult male was placed in an underground water channel at Huaca Pucllana around A.D. 650, when the channel and its ceremonial well were shut.
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A Buffalo-led team reports RNA condenses about 10 degrees Celsius below matched DNA, and traces it to the 2'-hydroxyl. That gives the RNA-world story a compartment without a membrane.
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A PNAS study reports the first direct evidence that Natufian foragers on Mount Carmel ate lizards and snakes, across 20 settlement layers spanning roughly 3,000 years.
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Twenty-four years of HILDA data show the hourly wage advantage of a degree peaked around 2010 and fell to 38% by 2024. The VET premium is down to 2%.
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RV Investigator has returned to Brisbane with sonar maps of submerged rivers and beaches on the southern Great Barrier Reef, plus more than 20 sediment cores still to be read.
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A Physical Review D paper argues cosmic acceleration is a residue of quantum uncertainty acting on geometry, which would turn two unsolved problems into one. Upcoming surveys are the test.
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Chang'e-7 launches Aug. 24 with an orbiter, a rover and a six-legged hopper meant to jump into permanently dark craters. What it measures will constrain where anyone builds a base.
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A Monash researcher argues Australopithecus and Paranthropus belong inside Homo because the traits that once separated them no longer hold. The fossils do not change; every label on them would.
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A settlement over straw purchases required Fleet Farm to hand 694 internal records to UCSF's Industry Documents Library. It is the first state deal to include that clause.
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LLNL says its Nature Physics measurement reconciles diamond melting data with quantum simulations, and that applying it to inertial-confinement fusion could triple energy gain.
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A Rutgers-led study of 122 people found synaptic loss that follows the brain's chemistry and wiring, not a diffuse smear, and modelling points to a left frontal starting point.
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A review pooling 204 samples from 145 workplace studies ranks the substance of what you say behind communication style and appearance, and finds sub-minute judgments still track weeks later.
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Scientific American asked endocrinologists what testosterone therapy actually does for cisgender men. The approved use is tightly bounded; the demand, and now the policy, is not.
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Basel researchers mapped 162 mouse brains to find wake-activated cells in the median raphe and preoptic area. Switching them off cut sleep by nearly 70 per cent, with no rebound.
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A Beijing Institute of Technology group stacked mercury telluride quantum dots on a two-colour OLED so that changes in infrared wavelength come out as red or cyan, not grey.
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An FDA panel voted against deramiocel on a secondary cardiac endpoint measured partly in boys whose hearts were still stable. The agency then pointed the sponsor back to its primary endpoint.
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Modulation spectroscopy on a neutral atom chain recovered the universal energy ratios of Ising and tricritical Ising CFTs, according to a report in Nature. Boundary conditions were set by local detunings at the edges.
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CO and CO2 are traced to the cathode and methane to the lithium anode. Activating the anode alone delayed gas onset by an order of magnitude, with the 4 M ether electrolyte left untouched.
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A record-strength El Nino has moved from forecast to administrative emergency in the Central American Dry Corridor. The government says the crisis runs to March or April.
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HydroGym ships more than 60 validated environments reaching Re = 4 x 10^5, plus a proof of concept where agents trained on cheap surrogates cut local skin friction on a 3D wing section.
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A PIK-led study projects Europe's annual burned area rising 39% under low emissions and 192% under high. The same paper says fire management could claw most of that back, for now.
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A UCSF physician wants the diagnosis moved into the eating disorders chapter of DSM-6. The argument is administrative: placement drives screening, referral and insurance coverage.
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A Sydney firm's Translation Readiness Index ranks papers by how closely their titles and abstracts resemble patent-linked work. It is now being tested with several universities.
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Nearly $2 billion of US global health assistance is moving through faith-based channels, with $850 million to a single grantee. The work now is subaward plumbing, not rhetoric.
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EU rules require AI firms to mark generated text by 2 December, and vendors will comply. Researchers say light edits strip the marks, so any policy built on detecting them is built on sand.
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A review of 350 papers argues that cutting dietary protein extends healthspan. Physiologists say the human evidence for the over-65s, the sedentary and GLP-1 users runs the other way.
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A framework in AI & Society names the loop "robotoid humanness." It is an argument rather than a measurement, and the customer side of the exchange is the part nobody is instrumenting.
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In 2,264 46-year-olds from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966, heavier coffee drinkers had less visceral fat and more muscle at similar BMI. The release reports directions, not magnitudes.
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Economists at Washington State and Pompeu Fabra model fishery certification as a signaling game: stock decline screens out weak operators, while climate windfalls and subsidies invite false claims.
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Hiroshima University researchers report that swapping refined sucrose for sugarcane molasses changed the structure and activity of exopolysaccharides from Bacillus velezensis AZU-A3.
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