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Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about the people and their relationships
DNA analysis rewrites the stories of people buried in Pompeii
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Myopia is starting earlier in children and affecting more people than ever before. What’s behind the near-sightedness epidemic? And are solutions finally coming into focus?
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Dozens of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be early examples of spindle whorls, a rotating tool used in textile making that was a step towards inventing the wheel
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The controversies surrounding football’s video assistant referee (VAR) system highlight our troubled relationship with uncertainty – and point to potential solutions
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Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has been shown that gene editing can make them sweeter without decreasing yields
Sweeter tomatoes are coming soon thanks to CRISPR gene editing
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Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that could improve GPS accuracy and help track space weather
Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere
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Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, thanks to a remarkably well-preserved fossil
Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains
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