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Past is prologue: Genetic 'memory' of ancestral environments helps organisms readapt
Organisms carry long-term "memories" of their ancestral homelands that help them adapt to environmental change, according to a new study that involved raising chickens on the Tibetan Plateau and an...
Watch: Pop-up drive-in theater brings movies back to New Jersey town
A New Jersey event center is reviving a once-dwindling concept by opening a pop-up drive-in movie theater in its parking lot.
In Mexico City, experts find bones of dozens of mammoths
Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 mammoths at an airport under construction just north of Mexico City, near human-built 'traps' where more than a dozen mammoths were found...
Migration patterns reveal an Eden for ancient humans and animals
Home to some of the richest evidence for the behavior and culture of the earliest clearly modern humans, the submerged shelf called the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (PAP) once formed its own...
Genetic ‘memory’ of ancestral environments helps organisms readapt
Organisms carry long-term “memories” of their ancestral homelands that help them adapt to environmental change, according to a new study that involved raising chickens on the Tibetan Plateau and an...
Banksy, Shepard Fairey and MOCA's 'Art in the Streets': Your quarantine must-see
New website revisits the Museum of Contemporary Art's "Art in the Streets" show featuring Spike Jonze, Larry Clark and Geoff McFetridge, among others.
South Korea legal group denies urging repatriation of defectors
A South Korean group that has urged North Korean waitresses resettled in the South to be repatriated and reunited with their families is denying accusations.
Jetliner with more than 100 aboard crashes in Pakistan
A Pakistani airliner with more than 100 people aboard crashed Friday near the airport in Karachi as it attempted to land, authorities said.
On This Day, May 22: North, South Yemen unify
On May 22, 1990, after 150 apart, South Yemen and North Yemen united, forming the new Yemeni Arab Republic.
Earliest evidence of Italians' extraordinary genetic diversity dates back to 19,000 years ago
In Europe, Italians have the highest genetic diversity. The gradient of their genetic variability, scattered all over the peninsula, encloses on a small scale the whole genetic variance between southern...
Man who captured video of Ahmaud Arbery shooting charged with murder
William "Roddie" Bryan Jr., the man who captured the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery on video, was arrested Thursday on felony murder charges and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment.
Why barrier contraceptives (like diaphragms) are so unpopular
The Prorace cervical cap took off in England in 1915. (Science Museum, London/)Donna J. Drucker is senior adviser in English as the Language of Instruction at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. She’s most recently...
Raytheon nabs $92.4M for work on NASAMS
Raytheon was awarded a $92.4 million contract for work on the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System, the Pentagon announced Thursday.
Week 3: Watch 'Mad Max: Fury Road' director George Miller on the Ultimate Summer Movie Showdown
Film critic Justin Chang and director George Miller discuss 'Mad Max: Fury Road' on the Ultimate Summer Movie Showdown.
Court says dinosaur fossils worth millions aren't minerals
Dinosaur fossils aren't minerals under state law, a divided Montana Supreme Court said in a ruling Wednesday that has implications in an ongoing legal battle over the ownership of millions...
Trump heads to Michigan amid clashes with state officials
President Trump heads to a Ford plant in Michigan for a visit already cloaked in controversy over his threats to cut funding to the battleground state and questions of whether...
'Anatomy of a Scandal' series in the works at Netflix
David E. Kelley is developing a new Netflix series based on the Sarah Vaughn novel "Anatomy of a Scandal."
YouTubers break Guinness World Record with Iftar livestream
A group of six Saudi Arabian YouTubers set a Guinness World Record when more than 180,000 people tuned in for an Iftar livestream.
How Parks Canada's online reservation system buckled — again — under the weight of would-be Banff campers
It's an annual ritual for many would-be campers: logging on to the Parks Canada online reservation system the moment it opens, only to see the website slow to a crawl...
On This Day, May 21: Clara Barton founds American Red Cross
On May 21, 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
Michigan flood displaces thousands, threatens Superfund site
Floodwaters surging through Central Michigan on Wednesday were mixing with containment ponds at a Dow Chemical Co. plant and could displace sediment from a downstream Superfund site, though the company...
Rapidly decaying Titanic could disappear in decades
Time and tides have been unkind to the Titanic. Explorers on the first manned voyage in nearly 15 years were astonished to find its rapid decay. Charlie D'Agata explains.
Kevin Love, Maya Moore among finalists for Muhammad Ali award at ESPYS
Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love, Minnesota Lynx star Maya Moore and New England Patriots defensive backs Devin and Jason McCourty were among the finalists for the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian...
New research sheds light on the day the dinosaurs died: "We could have had a very different planet"
For the first time, we have a detailed picture of what happened in the 24 hours after an asteroid hit the Earth 65 million years ago and caused dinosaurs to...
Many Napa Valley restaurants (but not French Laundry) reopen. Customers slow to return
Napa Valley restaurants reopen, but customers are few. 'It will be a slow return.'
Supercomputer model simulations reveal cause of Neanderthal extinction
Climate scientists discover that according to new supercomputer model simulations, only competition between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens can explain the rapid demise of Neanderthals around 43 to 38 thousand years...
Oldest connection with Native Americans identified near Lake Baikal in Siberia
Using human population genetics, ancient pathogen genomics and isotope analysis, a team of researchers assessed the population history of the Lake Baikal region, finding the deepest connection to date between...
California man marrying his cat to raise money for animal shelter
A California man is seeking to raise money for an animal shelter by holding a wedding ceremony to marry his cat.