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V. Craig Jordan, Who Discovered a Key Breast Cancer Drug, Dies at 76

V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist whose discovery that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of breast cancer cells opened up a...

Finding This Fossil Was Like Spotting a Crocodile in a Canadian Forest

Some 280 million years ago, a large predator glided through the chilly waters of a supercontinent in the Southern Hemisphere. The eight-foot-long hunter...

How the Denisovans Survived the Ice Age

The Baishiya Karst Cave is not an easy place to call home. It is nestled on a steep rocky slope on the Tibetan...

A Ban on Elephant Hunting Has Collapsed. Or Maybe It Never Existed.

On the lush, rolling savannas that link northern Tanzania to Amboseli National Park in Kenya, foraging elephants move back and forth on a...

New Drug Approved for Early Alzheimer’s

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, the latest in a novel class of treatments that...

Study Finds Alaskan Ice Field Melting at an ‘Incredibly Worrying’ Pace

One of North America’s largest areas of interconnected glaciers is melting twice as quickly as it did before 2010, a team of scientists...

Videos Show Ants Amputating Nest Mates’ Legs to Save Their Lives

The life of a Florida carpenter ant can be brutal. These half-inch ants are territorial and have violent bouts with ants from rival...

Debris Found in North Carolina Came From SpaceX Dragon, NASA Says

A hunk of metal found on a remote trail in a luxury camping resort in North Carolina came from a SpaceX Dragon capsule,...

Flash Flooding After New Mexico Wildfires Highlights Climate Risks

After two weeks of wildfires, a deluge in New Mexico caused severe flash flooding and debris flows near Ruidoso over the weekend.Dark floodwaters,...

The Rubik’s Cube Turns 50

The Cube is also a good challenge for machine learning systems and robots.And Maria Mannone, an Italian theoretical physicist and composer, invented the...

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