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‘Early Man was a Woman’ explores women’s role in prehistory

Science speaks with comic book artist Ulli Lust about depicting archaeology accurately and why the Stone Age is associated with cave men rather than cave women.

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Asteroid impact reportedly flung rocks 120 kilometres from a lunar crater

New Scientist says the impact’s widespread effects could help inform future exploration of the moon and similar places.

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Bumblebees reportedly incorporate plastic into their honeypots

Nature describes bumblebees using unfamiliar construction materials to build vessels for storing honey.

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Mutation patterns in Arabidopsis centromeres

Nature reports that homology-directed repair drives increased rates of point mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana centromeres.

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Armored dinosaur found in Japan may have ancestors that migrated from North America

Live Science reports that the newly described dinosaur is only the third nodosaurid fossil found in Asia.

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The first insects may have had far more than six legs

Science describes previously collected fossils as a rich source of clues to insect origins.

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Ineos temporarily halts production at Hull chemical plants

Chemistry World reports that Ineos is stopping production of acetic acid, acetic anhydride and ethyl acetate in Hull, blaming high UK gas prices.

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Elsevier teams up with AI firm to extract chemical structure data

Chemistry World reports that the data will be hosted on Reaxys, though researchers have concerns about independently validating the method.

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Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health plans autism research across the lifespan

STAT reports on the planned research in a Q&A with project leader Russell Shilling.

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Research explores gravity’s impact on the human genome

Astrobiology reports on scientists examining how gravity affects the human genome.

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Claude reportedly finds an enzyme system with CRISPR-like DNA repeats

A user relaying Anthropic's announcement says about 950 Claude agents worked for 21 hours. The system's function remains unknown, the user notes.

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Time crystals on a chip, a lutetium clock and the early solar system’s magnetic field

AiEonEe reports synchronized time crystals on a chip, a lutetium clock reaching 10⁻¹⁹ accuracy and meteorite evidence of a strong primordial solar magnetic field.

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