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Grower, not a shower: This tiny Guinness World Record-breaking fern has 50x more DNA than humans!
The fern's DNA, when unraveled, measures over 106 meters, making it taller than the Qutub Minar or …
Qualcomm moves quickly to deploy AI tools because "it's in our DNA," says CMO Don McGuire
Don McGuire, CMO of Qualcomm, says that 12 years of AI development has put the company at the foref…
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‘German’ cockroaches most likely came from India around 2,000 years ago, say researchers
Scientists sampled DNA from 281 German cockroaches from 17 countries across all six human-inhabited…
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Did infection from human viruses contribute to the demise of Neanderthals 40,000 years ago?
Researchers sifted through DNA extracted from Neanderthal remains in Chagyrskaya Cave, Russia, to l…
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Humans and Neanderthals only had sex for a brief period, but it still fundamentally changed our DNA
Scientists studied ancient humans and learned humans and Neanderthals started interbreeding 47,000 …
Jenny McGrath
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Scientists discovered 50,000-year-old viruses in Neanderthal DNA that could help explain their mysterious extinction
Research found signs of ancient viruses in Neanderthal DNA that they may have gotten from ancient h…
Jenny McGrath
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Kuwait fire: IAF aircraft on standby to bring back mortal remains of Indians
Kuwaiti authorities are conducting DNA tests on the bodies of over 40 Indians killed in the devasta…
PTI
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India, xenophobic? US President Joe Biden says India and Japan’s economy are bad because of xenophobia, compares to China and Russia
In a recent campaign fundraising event, US President Joe Biden sparked controversy by labelling US …
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Fin-bidden love: A shark might have just impregnated a stingray in captivity!
When the folks at TEAM ECCO's aquarium and shark lab in North Carolina noticed Charlotte's bulked-u…
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23andMe's business is basically worthless. Its CEO now wants to buy it.
23andMe chief Anne Wojcicki notified the board and will begin seeking funding to take the strugglin…
Geoff Weiss
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I'm African American and my wife is half-Filipina. We took a DNA test to help us decide what to name our children.
Cedric and Charlotte Thompson decided to learn more about their ancestry before naming their childr…
Yoonji Han
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Ancient giant mammals such as mammoths might’ve gone extinct due to human activity, not climate change
While past studies often attributed the extinction of large mammals to climate change, a new invest…
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Ancient human DNA suggests Columbus may not have brought syphilis to Europe after all
The long-standing theory that Columbus caused a devastating outbreak of syphilis when his expeditio…
Marianne Guenot
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If you're an early riser, you may have Neanderthal DNA to thank for it
Many of us carry Neanderthal or Denisovan DNA, and some of it may be linked with being an early ris…
Marianne Guenot
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A French town is so annoyed with lazy dog owners not cleaning up after their pets that it's introducing a poop DNA database to track and punish them
The mayor of Béziers is trialing a program that will use a DNA database to help track and punish la…
Joshua Zitser
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Octopus DNA gives scientists a glimpse into Antarctica's ancient past, and a possible highly unstable future
By studying the DNA of separate octopus populations, they stumbled upon a remarkable truth: around …
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Multiple sclerosis is more common among white Europeans. Researchers studying ancient DNA may have figured out why.
Researchers studying ancient DNA linked genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis with Yamnaya h…
Jenny McGrath
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Scientists are modifying catfish with alligator DNA to create hybrids for human consumption
Although the project is still in its early stages, the scientists hope to bring the catfish-alligat…
Hannah Getahun
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The father of an IDF soldier killed on October 7 claimed his son's decapitated head was found in an ice cream store's freezer
During an interrogation, a Hamas militant claimed that he had attempted to sell the head for $10,00…
Nathan Rennolds
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A Native woman launched a forensics nonprofit to address missing and murdered Indigenous people after her relative went missing and was never found
After growing up on the Blackfeet Reservation, Haley Omeaso is launching Ohkomi Forensics to help f…