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Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Nature magazine, a top British weekly scientific journal, retracted a study predicting climate change would cost an annual $38 trillion throughout the next 25 years after its methodology and ...

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Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. New research bolsters evidence that people with early signs of Alzheimer’s can take ...

A new study challenges a decades-old assumption about the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native waterbirds. Challenging a half-century-old ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single cells and forming multicellular structures. This ability to alternate ...

A computer simulation shows how urban life has eroded our ties to the outdoors—and how we could reverse it by 2050. A new study revealed that humanity's connection to nature has declined by around 60 ...

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The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...