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This ancient teenager is the first known person with parents of two different species

By Michelle Langley, The Conversation

A new ancient DNA study reports the first known person to have had parents of two different species.

Police militarization fails to protect officers and targets black communities, study finds

By Nsikan Akpan

Police militarization neither reduces rates of violent crime nor changes the number of officers assaulted or killed, a new study finds. It is arguably the nation’s first systematic analysis on the use and consequences of militarized police forces.

This scientist chases wildfires to better predict fire behavior

By Andrea Thompson, Scientific American

To know what a wildfire might do next, researchers need to know how an inferno interacts with the atmosphere.

Column: NYU medical school students are getting free tuition. But everyone will reap benefits

By Eli Cahan, STAT

Free tuition for medical students could help improve access to care by minority patients and ease the looming physician shortage.

How the Pentagon joins forces with Silicon Valley startups

By Mike Cerre

The U.S. military has been closely connected with Silicon Valley since it "started-up" in the 1960s. More recently, the Defense Department has set up an innovation base of sorts to get closer to the new technology companies they need to…

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How to avoid a catastrophic ‘Hothouse Earth’

By Julia Griffin, Nsikan Akpan

Humanity only has a handful of decades to determine the future of our planet.

These tiny worms can survive forces 400,000 times stronger than Earth’s gravity

By Katherine Kornei, Scientific American

New findings give some weight to the idea that life was blasted here from another planet.

An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes

By Michael D. Regan

An 11-year-old on Friday was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results found there in under 10 minutes.

Skin poaching of Asian elephants, a crisis unfolding in Myanmar, could crush the species

By Nsikan Akpan

Asian elephants are 10 times more endangered than African savanna elephant and facing a new serious threat. Poachers are taking the skin of Asian elephants in Myanmar and turning it into ruby red jewelry.