From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.
Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?
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Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?
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Two periodical cicada broods are appearing in a 16-state area in the Midwest and Southeast for the first time in centuries.
By Aaron Byrd, Karen Hanley and
Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.
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Brood XIII and Brood XIX are making their first dual appearance since 1803.
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China Launches Spacecraft to the Far Side of the Moon
If successful, the Chang’e-6 mission will be the first in history to return a sample from a part of the moon that we never get to see from Earth.
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For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal properties.
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Republicans Step Up Attacks on Scientist at Heart of Lab Leak Theory
A heated hearing produced no new evidence that Peter Daszak or his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, were implicated in the Covid outbreak.
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Edward Dwight Aims for Space at Last
Six decades ago, Mr. Dwight’s shot at becoming the first Black astronaut in space was thwarted by racism and politics. Now, at 90, he’s finally going up.
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Honeybees Invaded My House, and No One Would Help
Responding to fears of a “honeybee collapse,” 30 states have passed laws to protect the pollinators. But when they invaded my house, I learned that the honeybees didn’t need saving.
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Swimming Beneath Sand, It’s ‘the Hardest of All Animals to Find’
Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.
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A Megaraptor Emerges From Footprint Fossils
A series of foot tracks in southeastern China points to the discovery of a giant velociraptor relative, paleontologists suggest in a new study.
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In Coral Fossils, Searching for the First Glow of Bioluminescence
A new study resets the timing for the emergence of bioluminescence back to millions of years earlier than previously thought.
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Like Moths to a Flame? We May Need a New Phrase.
Over time researchers have found fewer of the insects turning up in light traps, suggesting they may be less attracted to some kinds of light than they once were.
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What Makes a Society More Resilient? Frequent Hardship.
Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly from future shocks.
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¿Por qué las mujeres padecen más enfermedades autoinmunes? Un estudio apunta al cromosoma X
Las moléculas que se adhieren al segundo cromosoma X de las mujeres lo silencian y pueden confundir al sistema inmunitario, según un nuevo estudio.
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Fossil Trove From 74,000 Years Ago Points to Remarkably Adaptive Humans
An archaeological site in Ethiopia revealed the oldest-known arrowheads and the remnants of a major volcanic eruption.
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Why Do Whales Go Through Menopause?
A new study argues that the change brought these females an evolutionary advantage — and perhaps did the same for humans.
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Tras la pista de los denisovanos
El ADN ha demostrado que esos humanos ya extintos se extendieron por todo el mundo, desde la fría Siberia hasta el Tíbet, a una gran altitud, quizá incluso en las islas del Pacífico.
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What Happens When NASA Loses Eyes on Earth? We’re About to Find Out.
Three long-running satellites will soon be switched off, forcing scientists to figure out how to adjust their views of our changing planet.
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‘We Will Save Our Beef’: Florida Bans Lab-Grown Meat
Other states have also considered restrictions, citing concerns about farmers’ livelihoods and food safety, though the product isn’t expected to be widely available for years.
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Gas Stove Pollution Risk Is Greatest in Smaller Homes, Study Finds
Gas-burning ranges, a significant contributor to indoor pollution, can produce and spread particularly high levels of some pollutants in smaller spaces.
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Can Forests Be More Profitable Than Beef?
Cattle ranches have ruled the Amazon for decades. Now, new companies are selling something else: the ability of trees to lock away planet-warming carbon.
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U.S. Plan to Protect Oceans Has a Problem, Some Say: Too Much Fishing
An effort to protect 30 percent of land and waters would count some commercial fishing zones as conserved areas.
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New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
By Emily Baumgaertner
Illinois is the center of the cicada emergence that is on the way. Two groups of cicadas are expected at once, leaving some people queasy, others thrilled.
By Julie Bosman and Jamie Kelter Davis
A genetic analysis sheds light on when the outbreak began, how the virus spread and where it may be going.
By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes
The Chang’e-6 mission aims to bring back samples from the lunar far side.
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Thousands of Americans believe they experienced rare but serious side effects. But confirming a link is a difficult task.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Professor Young’s experiments with prairie voles revealed what poets never could: how the brain processes that fluttering feeling in the heart.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
The event will be active when the moon is just a sliver in the sky, but it is less easy to see in the Northern Hemisphere than other meteor showers.
By Katrina Miller
But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing has been done.
By Noah Weiland and Linda Qiu
Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large — with tentacles in every aspect of the nation’s medical care — that the effects of the hack were outsize.
By Reed Abelson and Noah Weiland
Women at risk for extreme high blood pressure should take a daily baby aspirin. But their doctors don’t always tell them.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
The low water levels that choked cargo traffic were more closely tied to the natural climate cycle than to human-caused warming, a team of scientists has concluded.
By Raymond Zhong
He figured in the examination of sensational cases involving President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., O.J. Simpson and others.
By Trip Gabriel
The Biden administration is tightening efficiency rules for water heaters, stoves and other appliances, and conservative politicians are dialing up their criticisms.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
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Some researchers said the advice did not go far enough. The panel also declined to recommend extra scans for women with dense breast tissue.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.
By Kenneth Chang
Around the world, grass-roots organizers and Indigenous communities are taking proposed coal, oil and gas projects to court — and winning.
By Delger Erdenesanaa
Thousands of people with sleep apnea and other illnesses had sued the company, claiming flawed devices were harming them.
By Christina Jewett
A new study bolsters existing research suggesting that exercise can protect against anxiety, depression and attention challenges.
By Matt Richtel
An audacious federal plan to protect the spotted owl would eradicate hundreds of thousands of barred owls in the coming years.
By Franz Lidz
Despite an arsenal of drugs, many Americans are still unaware of their infections until it’s too late. A Biden initiative languishes without Congressional approval.
By Ted Alcorn
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is rolling out two new exhibition halls and making its scientists more accessible. And don’t forget the dinosaurs.
By John Hanc
The early results suggest that pasteurization is killing the H5N1 virus in milk, something that regulators were not certain of.
By Noah Weiland and Benjamin Mueller
The proposal had been years in the making, in an effort to curb death rates of Black smokers targeted by Big Tobacco. In an election year, the president’s worries about support among Black voters may have influenced the postponement.
By Christina Jewett and Noah Weiland
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The women underwent the cosmetic procedure at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
The statue will be part of “Ancient Huasteca Women: Goddesses, Warriors and Governors” at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.
By Zoë Lescaze
The Atomic Museum in Las Vegas explains to visitors that Nevada and other states also played a role — for better or worse — in the creation of nuclear energy.
By Michael Janofsky
A historian and sociologist of science re-examines the “posture panic” of the last century. You’ll want to sit down for this.
By Matt Richtel
Two creatures unearthed in 2006, and finally on display in North Carolina, might hold the key to a major debate over a certain animal’s identity.
By Adam Popescu
There is no evidence that the milk is unsafe to drink, scientists say. But the survey result strongly hints that the outbreak may be widespread.
By Emily Anthes and Noah Weiland
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