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How did one of the world’s biggest dinosaurs walk? Footprints offer clues | Science

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How does an animal as big as a semitruck move around? That’s a question scientists have long asked about sauropods, the largest known dinosaurs, which may have weighed as much as 70 tons. Did they walk like a giraffe, picking up their two left and right legs in a dignified march? Or like an elephant, … Read more

What Biden Said–and Didn’t Say–on Climate During the State of the Union

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President Biden used his first State of the Union address to reset his administration after a year of inflation and crises at home and abroad that has left him with nearly record-low approval ratings. But Biden did little to restart his stalled climate agenda. He spoke only briefly about climate change—talking about it roughly as … Read more

Archaeologists uncover oldest ochre workshop in East Asia | Science

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Some 40,000 years ago, a small group of foragers parked themselves on a riverbank in what is now northeastern China. Some split pebbles and bones to make small tools while others made a fire. And at least one experienced craftsperson concentrated on the primary task: grinding red, purple, and gray chunks of ochre into a … Read more

Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise

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In just 17 years, messenger RNA therapies have gone from proof of concept to global salvation. The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for COVID-19 have been given to hundreds of millions of people, saving countless lives. In 2005 Katalin Karikó and I created a way to make mRNA molecules that would not cause dangerous inflammation when … Read more

25 weird and wild solar system facts

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With so many interesting solar system facts, we’ve narrowed them down to 25 of our favorites.  Our solar system consists of the sun and everything that orbits that sun, like the eight (once nine) planets we all know from elementary school. But the main planets, as diverse and fascinating as they are, are just the … Read more

The Terminator movies in order

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If you’re looking to watch The Terminator movies in order, you’re going to need our guide, or a PhD in temporal mechanics. The Terminator franchise is a sci-fi epic – six movies (some excellent, some questionable), each one a building block to form the intrepid web of cyborg assassins and future wars. But what is … Read more

The Manhattan Project Shows Scientists’ Moral and Ethical Responsibilities

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After the first-ever explosion of an atomic bomb on July 16, 1945 near Socorro, N.M., J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, recited a line from the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Less than a month later, a quarter of a million lives were lost to the … Read more

Netflix’s Marvel shows jump ship to Disney Plus, which now has parental controls

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Since Disney Plus is the home of Marvel these days, some well known Marvel titles are making the jump over from Netflix.  TV shows including Daredevil, The Defenders, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D and more are moving from one streaming service to another. These shows will add to Disney’s already huge Marvel collection and will be available … Read more