Ann Gibbons
@evolutionscribe
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correspondent for Science/author who writes about evolution
Joined April 2009
And Neanderthals didn’t even drink protein powder! A fascinating story by my colleague Mike Price: Did lead poisoning doom Neanderthals? | Science | AAAS
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Modern humans’ tolerance for the toxic metal may have helped them outcompete our closest evolutionary cousins
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In the more than 20 years since the term “microplastics” was first coined, a rapidly growing body of research has consistently shown how pervasive and problematic the pollutants have become. A 2024 #ScienceReview provides an overview of this research and the progress made in
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I write about a beautiful fossil hand skeleton from an ancient relative of ours shows it had huge hands but also was probably adept with tools. An ancient cousin to humans probably built tools with its huge hands | Science | AAAS
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New fossils reveal Paranthropus had massive yet dexterous hands
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Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history | Science | AAAS
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Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research
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By drilling a core, researchers could see the rise and fall of mining pollution --and the ancient economy: Great Britain’s economy didn’t completely tank after Romans left, countering conventional wisdom | Science | AAAS
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“Completely surprising” discovery based on ancient pollutants suggests mining and smelting continued apace for centuries
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Human ancestors braved England’s ice-covered northlands 440,000 years ago | Science | AAAS
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How exactly ancient toolmakers survived the harsh conditions remains a mystery
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Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims | Science | AAAS
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New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say
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Another gift from Neanderthals and Denisovans: DNA from ancient bones reveals how Indigenous Americans got their mucus | Science | AAAS
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Neanderthals and Denisovans passed along gene that provides a sticky shield against germs
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Fossil teeth reveal a previously unknown human ancestor from eastern Africa | Science | AAAS
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Scientists say the teeth belonged to a type of Australopithecus, a relative of Lucy’s species, that coexisted with our genus, Homo
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It's amazing to think about what it would have been like to be alive when other types of hominins shared the landscape. Three ancient human relatives once shared the same valley. Did they meet—and compete? | Science | AAAS
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The world’s greatest concentration of ancestral human remains, in South Africa, poses a 2-million-year-old riddle of coexistence
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U.S. college is first to decline federal science grants because of new DEI language | Science | AAAS
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Williams College says NSF and NIH requirement related to discrimination “undermines” academic freedom
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Researchers have shown that Bitcoin mining has added more energy production to the U.S. grid than the amount required by the city of Los Angeles. Bitcoin Mining’s Outsized Impact on the U.S. Grid
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Bitcoin mining in the U.S. now consumes more electricity than Los Angeles. Harvard researchers found pollution hotspots affecting 1.9M people, raising health risks. #Bitcoin
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“Trump is kindling bogus emergencies.” Opinion | Trump’s fake emergencies are the real crisis - The Washington Post
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His vague national security claims chill speech and action far beyond his individual targets.
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Most Phoenicians did not come from the land of Canaan, challenging historical assumptions | Science | AAAS
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Culture with biblical roots spread across the ancient world, but its people did not
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“Somebody has to be prepared to stand up if the director of the National Institutes of Health declares that mRNA vaccine technology is potentially dangerous,” Vaccine experts band together to counter U.S. government misinformation | Science | AAAS
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Vaccine Integrity Project intends to provide scientific responses to ill-founded vaccine moves
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Women's Health Initiative study loses federal funding : Shots - Health News : NPR
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The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.
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“This was really meant as a makeup project for women, because women have been excluded from research for so many years,” NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS
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The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Cuts for research, including air pollution, and clean energy. EPA orders staff to begin canceling research grants | Science | AAAS
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Agency targets programs that award up to $40 million annually
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Major cuts to research ranging from tuberculosis to military readiness to new technologies to test vaccines. Why? NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them | Science | AAAS
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Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors
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