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Ebola is spreading in the Democratic Republic of CongoBaz Ratner/Reuters By Chelsea WhyteThe number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo is rising faster, reaching a high of 27 confirmed cases in one day, according to the country’s health ministry. That surpasses the last record, set a few weeks ago, of 20 cases…

Bees have a sort of collective immune systemAmornrut Ploysangam/EyeEm/Getty By Michael Le PageBee colonies are even more of a superorganism than we thought. When disease strikes, bees can add immunity-providing molecules to the jellies they feed to larvae, to give the hive a kind of collective immune system. A decade ago, Eyal Maori at Cambridge…

DNA is easily edited using CRISPRRostislav Zatonskiy / Alamy Stock Photo By Ruby Prosser ScullyMolecules that act like off switches for CRISPR may one day be used as a drug to make gene editing therapies safer. The power of CRISPR gene editing to easily change DNA could lead to new treatments for cancers, viral infections,…

Bamboo is meatier than it seemsDavid Lambert/EyeEm/Getty By Yvaine YePandas’ obsession with bamboo doesn’t appear to make sense. None of their bear relatives are vegetarian, and their digestive system still looks like that of a meat eater. However, a study has found that pandas eat the same amount of protein as that of carnivores, offering…

The first Denisovan remains discovered outside Siberia suggest our extinct cousins lived at extreme altitude in Tibet long before our species made it there Humans 1 May 2019 This jawbone suggests that Denisovans lived in Tibet 160,000 years agoDongju Zhang, Lanzhou University By Clare WilsonTHE first fossil of our cousins the Denisovans ever to be…

This changes everything | As we travel in autonomous cars or on electronic scooters, a trick involving a bit of malicious code may put our computer networks at risk Technology | Comment 1 May 2019 Andrei Stanescu/GettyBy Annalee Newitz BECAUSE I live in San Francisco, I have been subjected to a number of ill-fated experiments performed…

The speed and scale of Arctic melting is shocking even hardened researchers – the need to act now has never been clearer, says our chief reporter Adam Vaughan Environment | Comment 1 May 2019 Josie FordBy Adam Vaughan IT’S not exactly a natural icebreaker, but Earth scientists are talking a lot about ice right now.…

We have been pumping out greenhouse gases for a very long time – and now we have evidence that humans were changing the climate over a century ago Environment 1 May 2019 Did emissions make the US Dust Bowl of the 1930s worse?Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images By Adam VaughanDROUGHTS around the world dating to…

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