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1. Corn ethanol no better—and probably worse—than burning gasoline, study says

   By Karlston, February 17, 2022
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   • February 18, 2022

2. Brain size vs. body size and the roots of intelligence

   By Karlston, July 12, 2022
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   • July 12, 2022

3. Firm planning 100,000 satellites claims it will “clean space” by capturing debris

   By Karlston, February 8, 2022
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   • February 8, 2022

4. Do birds have language? It depends on how you define it

   By Karlston, February 26, 2022
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   • February 26, 2022

5. Controversy erupts over Aussie museum’s identification of HMS Endeavour wreck

   By Karlston, February 4, 2022
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   • February 4, 2022

6. This 5,300-year-old skull shows evidence of the earliest known ear surgery

   By Karlston, February 25, 2022
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   • February 25, 2022

7. An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring—which might explain why mammals survived

   By Karlston, February 23, 2022
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   • February 23, 2022

8. Caught in the act: Mammal found with teeth sunk in a much larger dinosaur

   By Karlston, July 18, 2023
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   • July 18, 2023

9. Amateur sleuths solve 160-year mystery by decoding Charles Dickens letter

   By Karlston, February 10, 2022
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   • February 10, 2022

10. Early humans kept getting their heads knocked in

    By Karlston, March 1, 2022
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    • Comment by Lexionline
    • March 1, 2022

11. Scientists taught a cockatoo named Figaro to combine tools and “golf” for reward

    By Karlston, February 9, 2022
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    • February 9, 2022

12. Great balls of fire: A monk named Gervase saw ball lightning way back in 1195

    By Karlston, February 5, 2022
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    • February 5, 2022

13. Five seconds, 59 megajoules: A new record for tokamak fusion

    By Karlston, February 9, 2022
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    • February 9, 2022

14. Ancient Peruvians partied hard, spiked their beer with hallucinogens to win friends

    By Karlston, January 13, 2022
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    • January 13, 2022

15. Long-lost sphinxes of Egyptian king Amenhotep III unearthed at Luxor

    By Karlston, January 27, 2022
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    • January 27, 2022

16. Did a large impact remix the Moon’s interior?

    By Karlston, January 11, 2022
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    • January 11, 2022

17. High-speed rail construction reveals Roman town in the UK

    By Karlston, January 12, 2022
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    • January 12, 2022

18. The last of Mars’ liquid waters flowed about 2 billion years ago

    By Karlston, January 29, 2022
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    • January 29, 2022

19. The most important computer you’ve never heard of

    By Karlston, January 4, 2022
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    • January 4, 2022

20. Radian announces plans to build one of the holy grails of spaceflight

    By Karlston, January 19, 2022
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    • January 19, 2022

21. Autonomous battery-powered rail cars could steal shipments from truckers

    By Karlston, January 19, 2022
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    • January 19, 2022

22. Researchers date the oldest known human skull at 233,000 years

    By Karlston, January 21, 2022
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    • January 21, 2022

23. A simple mathematical model can account for lizard’s green-and-black pattern

    By Karlston, February 3, 2022
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    • February 3, 2022

24. Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu

    By Karlston, March 27, 2024
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    • March 27, 2024

25. The genetic engineering behind pig-to-human transplants

    By Karlston, January 21, 2022
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    • January 21, 2022