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- Jurassic fossil tail tells of missing link in crocodile family tree
- Punching holes in graphene to boost hydrogen production
- Alcohol and tobacco are by far the biggest threat to human welfare of all addictive drugs
- Ice stream draining Greenland Ice Sheet sensitive to changes over past 45,000 years
- Researchers may be underestimating roadkill numbers
- India has an AI plan—but it’s a long way from catching up with China and the US
- A boost for graphene-based light detectors: Photoexcited graphene puzzle solved
- Kenya’s first satellite is now in Earth orbit
- Tiny spiders, big color
- Taurine deficiency in sperm causes male infertility
- Waterloo chemists create faster and more efficient way to process information
- Fungi may help restore native plant populations
- Could a multiverse be hospitable to life?
- Dozens of binaries from Milky Way’s globular clusters could be detectable by LISA
- Researchers question conservation community’s acceptance of trophy hunting
- People are freaking out about Google’s extremely human-sounding phone-call-making AI
- Carnegie Mellon is set to offer the first undergrad degree in AI in the US
- Microscale IR spectroscopy enabled by phase change materials and metasurfaces
- I lost a bet, and now I am going to let millions of strangers check whether we’re related