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Who owns your bones?
12+ hour, 3+ min ago (23+ words) Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the history of unethical practices in research on human remains and the progress toward more ethical standards....
Hantavirus questions grow in the wake of a cruise ship outbreak
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (749+ words) Scientists still don’t know why Andes hantavirus is the only one shown to spread from person to person....
What to know about a rare hantavirus outbreak at sea
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1091+ words) Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has been human-to-human spread....
Young pterosaurs probably died in violent Jurassic storms
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (384+ words) Fossils from Germany suggest young flyers were felled by violent winds 150 million years ago A Pterodactylus hatchling (illustrated) struggles to fly in powerful storm winds. The broken wings of two young pterosaurs may reveal how hundreds of their kind met…...
The phoenix isn’t the only critter to survive the flames
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (612+ words) Single-celled archaea and South African weevils can tolerate shockingly high heat Certain weevils in South Africa live in the fynbos — a dry, shrub-filled area that’s prone to wildfires — and can survive scorching temperatures. Pablo Hurtado de Mendoza At the end…...