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Newly identified microbe disables the viruses before they can infect the insects, potentially reducing disease transmission in people
Startups aim to curb climate change by pulling carbon dioxide from the ocean—not the air
Schemes to use renewable energy to process seawater may be cheaper and easier than air capture
Daring ‘James Bond’ mission to drill Antarctic ices cores could reveal future of sea level rise
To understand vulnerable glaciers, climate scientists extract ice from continent’s remote and stormy coast
Charred bones are signs of Maya ritual to erase past rulers
Twelve-hundred-year-old burnt remains in Guatemala reflect political turmoil that led to the eventual collapse of empire
Striking Amazonian butterfly is result of ancient hybrid event
Matings between two species are often evolutionary dead ends. This one birthed a new species
‘Myconauts’ aim to reveal the often hidden soil fungi that shape ecosystems
New nonprofit pursues global survey of microbes that help plants thrive
‘Now we know where the dead went.’ Did grave robbers plunder battlefields?
Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues
Oldest ever ice offers glimpse of Earth before the ice ages
Climate snapshots suggest carbon dioxide levels were surprisingly modest during ancient warm period
Anthropologists take up arms against ‘race science’
At their annual meeting, biological anthropologists began to build a playbook to thwart racist misuse of research