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China accuses Canada of protectionism over 100% tariffs on electric vehicles

Barbara Terrio

Beijing — China on Tuesday accused Canada of protectionism after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government imposed a 100% tariff on imports of Chinese-made ...

Experiment sets new record in search for dark matter

Daisy Hips

LZ’s central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground. Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground ...

Discovery of a hidden epigenetic clock in mitochondria reveals a ‘lifespan limit line’

Daisy Hips

N6-methyladenine levels in the C. elegans mitochondrial genome gradually increase with age. (A) The 6mA progressively accumulates at different mtDNA ...

Study suggests fossil record gaps not a major issue

Daisy Hips

The outcome of simulating carbonate platforms in the stratigraphic domain. A Scenario A: deposition based on a fictional sea-level curve. ...

Ukraine’s strike on Kursk may mean Russia can’t end war on its terms

Abhinav Thawait

Russian missiles hit energy infrastructure in more than half of Ukraine’s regions The barrage began around midnight and continued beyond ...

Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean

Daisy Hips

Two representative theropod tracks from the Koum Basin in northern Cameroon. Credit: SMU An international team of researchers led by ...

The Quantum Mechanics of the Greenhouse Effect

Daisy Hips

A key question was the origin of the logarithmic scaling of the greenhouse effect—the 2-to-5-degree temperature rise that models predict ...

Scientists Trained a Lump of Goo to Play Pong

Brendan Martin

Scientists have trained an inanimate lump of goo to play the video game Pong. As reported in New Scientist and ...

Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California’s Mono Lake

Daisy Hips

A colony of choanoflagellates stained to show its features. Cyan indicates DNA—the doughnut-shaped DNA of the choanoflagellate cells and a ...

Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down, study shows

Debi Johnson

Loose fitting clothing lets through less IR. Credit: DeBeaubien and Chandel et al. While a mosquito bite is often no ...

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