Science & Health
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Tasmanian Devils May Overcome Transmissible Cancer That Nearly Wiped Them Out
A new study out Thursday suggests that Tasmanian devils are starting to adapt to one of the strangest diseases known in nature: a contagious cancer spread by biting. The study has found evidence that the disease is spreading more slowly and becoming endemic in the devil population, rather than the very fatal and rapidly spreading…
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New Research Bolsters Claim That Neanderthals Buried Their Dead
A thorough re-analysis of a skeleton belonging to a 2-year-old Neanderthal and the archaeological site in which it was discovered some 50 years ago is providing some of the strongest evidence yet that Neanderthals deliberately buried their dead.
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Canada Is Latest to Approve Covid-19 Vaccine, and U.S. Is Likely Next
On Wednesday, Canada became the third country in the world to grant approval for Pfizer and BioNTech’s covid-19 vaccine. The decision comes just as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to make its own call this week, following a meeting of independent experts on Thursday who will recommend whether or not an emergency…
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Chuck Yeager, First Faster-Than-Sound Pilot, Dies at 97
America has lost one of its great daredevils of the sky. Chuck Yeager, the Air Force test pilot who made history by being the first person to break the sound barrier, died on Monday evening. He was 97.