Polynesians steering by the stars met Native Americans long before Europeans arrived (www.science.org)
Study of modern DNA shakes up ideas of when and where contact happened.
First malaria vaccine slashes early childhood mortality (www.science.org)
European Commission proposes loosening rules for gene-edited plants (www.science.org)
Scientists welcomed this week’s draft proposal, which aims to accelerate research boosting the resilience of crops to climate change, pests, and diseases, and to develop plants that require fewer fertilizers.
U.S. cancels or curtails half of its Antarctic research projects. (www.science.org)
The U.S. Antarctic research program is in trouble, as canceled field seasons imperil data sets and demoralize researchers.
Half-billion-year-old sea squirt could push back origins of vertebrates, including humans (www.science.org)
Now, in a paper published today in Nature Communications, Nanglu and his co-authors report that the exquisitely-preserved 500-million-year-old fossil is a dead ringer for some tunicates today, with two siphons to filter organic particles from the water and complex musculature controlling the siphons. “It looks like a tunicate...
In massive underwater Chilean mountain range, scientists find more than 100 new species (www.science.org)
Sweeping chronic fatigue study brings clues but not clarity to mysterious syndrome (deep phenotyping study) (www.science.org)
The new work, published this week in Nature Communications, affirms that ME/CFS is unquestionably biologically rooted, says Avindra Nath, clinical director of the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who led the study. It revealed brain activity differences, along with immune and other abnormalities, in...
Tectonic plate under Tibet may be splitting in two (www.science.org)
Peeled-apart Indian Plate could be affecting earthquake hazards...
First malaria vaccine slashes early childhood mortality (www.science.org)
Should I get a COVID-19 booster? Scientists continue to debate the pluses and minuses of extra doses of vaccine (www.science.org)
Scientists shouldn’t debate gaslighters (www.science.org)
Hucksters like RFK Jr are skilled at flooding the zone with garbage....
New Dutch right-wing coalition to cut research, innovation, and environmental protections (www.science.org)
Four parties hammer out agreement filled with bad news for scientists...
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West Virginia passes bill allowing intelligent design to be taught in high school biology classes (www.science.org)
Downward migrating microplastics in lake sediments are a tricky indicator for the onset of the Anthropocene (www.science.org)
found from here
Massive solar farms could provoke rainclouds in the desert - Updrafts from dark solar panels could fuel storms—an alternative to cloud seeding (www.science.org)
Woman the hunter: Ancient Andean remains challenge old ideas of who speared big game (www.science.org)
Early hunting was “gender neutral,” archaeologists suggest
‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes (www.science.org)
Some crustaceans have evolved a way to make silk (www.science.org)
Gaining and losing that ability fueled great diversity in one group called amphipods
Billionaire launches plagiarism detection effort against MIT president and all its faculty - Angered by media exposé of his wife’s work, Bill Ackman also vows to audit faculty of other elite schools (www.science.org)
Vocal therapy changes vocal cords of transgender patients without need for surgery (www.science.org)
This study did have a really small sample size, but it’s a nice start.
New Florida law blocks Chinese students from academic labs (www.science.org)
Spain wants to change how it evaluates scientists—and end the ‘dictatorship of papers’ (www.science.org)
Spain’s much-maligned system for evaluating scientists, in which the sole criterion for career advancement is the publication of papers, is set to be overhauled under new proposals from the country’s National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (ANECA)....