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- Why bat scientists are socially distancing from their subjects 23rd October 2020Scientists are calling for a “hands-off” approach to research to decrease the chances of spreading the coronavirus to bats in North America.Jerimiah Oetting
- The arthritis drug tocilizumab doesn’t appear to help fight COVID-19 23rd October 2020The best available evidence so far hasn’t found that the anti-inflammatory drug benefited patients hospitalized with COVID-19.Aimee Cunningham
- Bat-winged dinosaurs were clumsy fliers 22nd October 2020The two known species of bat-winged dinosaurs were a dead end when it comes to the evolution of bird flight, a new study finds.Carolyn Gramling
- Homo erectus, not humans, may have invented the barbed bone point 22nd October 2020Carved artifacts excavated from Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge suggest now-extinct hominids made barbed bone points long before humans did, researchers say.Bruce Bower
- How environmental changes may have helped make ancient humans more adaptable 21st October 2020An East African sediment core unveils ecological changes underlying a key Stone Age transition.Bruce Bower