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The social environment, then, is genetics one degree removed. And vice versa. When scientists started decoding the human genome, many assumed the nature-nurture debate was over and the hereditarians had essentially won. Soon we’d know the genetic blueprints for everything: obesity, intelligence, susceptibility to chronic diseases, even individual personality traits. Pharmaceutical companies would develop drugs…
Written by Denise Buckner, student collaborator at University of Florida Perseverance is hard at work on Mars, overcoming obstacles for scientific exploration! Just a few sols after successfully sealing the challenging Green Gardens core, Perseverance roved on to the Broom Point workspace to collect another sample called Main River. Broom Point is situated a few…
CLIMATEWIRE | EPA on Wednesday announced it was walking away from virtually every important climate policy on the books, charting an aggressive course on deregulation that will take years to complete — and compliant courts. The agency at the center of federal climate action said it would roll back bedrock scientific findings, kill climate rules,…
President Trump’s cabinet has been busy rolling back regulations that will make it far easier to extract and produce fossil fuels. But who will buy them? Nearly everyone, it turns out, particularly under the threat of tariffs. At an annual energy-industry conference in Houston, executives spoke openly about how companies from around the world are…
Lilo & Stitch | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 23 – YouTube Watch On Disney has just dropped the first full trailer for the live-action remake of Lili & Stitch. “Lilo and Stitch,” Disney’s animated sci-fi comedy from 2002, was a bit of a departure from traditional Disney fare, featuring a spunky six-year-old Pacific…
The release of the 2025 U.S. State of the Birds report was announced today at the 90th annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The report, produced by a coalition of leading science and conservation organizations, reveals continued widespread declines in American bird populations across all mainland and marine habitats, with…
Jewish and Muslim groups condemned President Trump for calling Senator Chuck Schumer “a Palestinian,” saying that the president used the term as a racial slur. Mr. Trump made the comments on Wednesday at a meeting in the Oval Office with Micheál Martin, the prime minister of Ireland. A reporter asked Mr. Trump about tax cuts,…
Across the street from the Flamingo Visitor’s Center at the foot of Florida’s Everglades National Park, there was once a thriving mangrove population — part of the largest stand of mangroves in the Western Hemisphere. Now, the skeletal remains of the trees form one of the Everglades’ largest ghost forests. When Hurricane Irma made landfall…
The Maquan river, the upper section of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, which flows through the Tibetan Plateau TAO Images Limited/Alamy Ancient humans managed to live on the Tibetan Plateau, the highest plateau on Earth, during the coldest period of the past 2.5 million years, demonstrating their resilience and adaptability. The last glacial maximum spanned 26,500…
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Despite our diverse cultural, traditional, religious, and linguistic backgrounds, there is an underlying unity among humans. This is unsurprising since we all belong to the same human race. When we delve into our ancient history, we uncover remarkable parallels between cultures that were geographically distant from each other. These ancient…