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If you’re one of the millions of people who have a gaping space in your gums where a tooth used to be, there’s reason to hope you might not have to spend the rest of your days with an uneven smile or fake teeth. Scientists in Japan have announced that they are moving forward with a drug that is capable …

Scientists Discover “Shocking” 18-Million-Year-Old Secret Hidden in Fossil Teeth  SciTechDaily 20-Million-Year-Old Rhino Fossil Rewrites Evolutionary History  SciTechDaily Scientists recover proteins from a 24 million-year-old rhino fossil. Are dinosaurs next?  CNN Scientists Recover Ancient Proteins From Animal Teeth Up to 24 Million Years Old, Opening Doors to Learning About the Past  Smithsonian Magazine Scientists Found a 24-Million-Year-Old Rhino Tooth. Here’s Why That’s a Really Big …

A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic “junk,” may actually play powerful roles in regulating gene expression. Focusing on a family of sequences called MER11, researchers from Japan, China, Canada, and the US have shown that these elements have evolved to influence how genes turn on and off, …

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications unveils new insights into the ancient world, shedding light on the catastrophic event that led to the mass extinction of marine life during the Triassic–Jurassic period, approximately 201 million years ago. This research, conducted by scientists from the University of St Andrews and the University of Birmingham, links the extinction to ocean acidification …

Scientists Strip Cells of Mysterious Organelles To Reveal Hidden Secrets  SciTechDaily Source link

QUICK FACTS Where is it? Karakoram mountain range, Kashmir region, central Asia [35.50982304, 76.99307626] What’s in the photo? Three striated glaciers merging into a single ice mass Who took the photo? An unnamed astronaut on board the International Space Station When was it taken? Aug. 15, 2023 This intriguing astronaut photo shows a trio of “anomalous” ice masses merging in …

‘Hot Jupiter’ torn apart by erupting young star, scientists say  KXAN Austin CHEOPS discovers exoplanet triggering explosive flares on host star  NASASpaceFlight.com – ‘Death Wish’ Planet Slowly Killing Itself  خبرگزاری آنا Strange planet discovered that causes plasma explosions on its parent star  Earth.com A Planet on a Path to Self-Destruction: The Strange Case of HIP 67522 b  Vocal Source link

“They Were Born Disease-Free”: UK Scientists Use Three-Parent IVF to Deliver 8 Healthy Babies and Eliminate Deadly Genetic Disorders  Rude Baguette Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF  MIT Technology Review Babies made using three people’s DNA are born free of hereditary disease  BBC The babies born with DNA from three parents – podcast  The Guardian How a third parent’s DNA …

Fusion Scientists Reach Historic Milestone With Magnet Strong Enough to Lift a Warship—Clearing the Path to Final ITER Assembly  Energy Reporters Source link

“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The oldest-known hominin track sites found in southwest Europe provide clues to the hunting patterns of Neanderthals. Experts believe that along with eating plenty of plants, the ancient population also hunted deer, horses, and rabbits. Neanderthals …