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We tend to think of a fetus's brain as a construction site guided by a blueprint imprinted in the genes. But even before birth, other things are happening. The fetus moves, responds to muffled sounds, receives stimuli and, crucially, its own nervous system is already generating activity.
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A report from the Climate Impact Lab warns that an intensifying El Niño could cause tens of thousands of additional heat-related deaths across Africa's Sahel, with Nigeria and the Global South bearing…
The Distance Scale to Gamma Ray Bursts Baird AuditoriumNatural History Museum, The Smithsonian Institution22 April 1995Debate Program: 1 – 4:15 pm; Reception: 4:15 – 5:30 pmDebate Program…
Climate change is bringing extreme summer heat to many more countries, but using the right plants in your garden could help keep your home a bit cooler next summer.
Building a human civilization on Mars will be orders of magnitude harder than any of the human migrations on Earth ever were.
Scientists at Cornell University have found a human genetic element in a poxvirus and discovered that it is both an important gene for brain function and a jumping gene capable of moving and inserting…
