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Ralph, a five-year-old Gordon Setter, was treated using technology that is said to have previously only been available for humans.

“Baking is applied microbiology,” according to the book Modernist Bread. During pandemic lockdowns, many people started baking their own bread. Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs talks about Modernist Bread, for which he was a writer and editor.   

The mummy had an undigested piece of woolly rhino in its stomach.

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

“Backing is applied microbiology,” according to the book Modernist Bread. During pandemic lockdowns, many people started baking their own bread. Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs talks about Modernist Bread, for which he was a writer and editor.   

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

It’s been about five months since I set foot in a bar. Like many of you navigating life in a pandemic, I miss bars. I miss the simple pleasure of sharing a beer with friends. And I know I’m not alone.

The last time something like this happened was 1959.

A megadrought that lasted more than 1000 years may have plagued Southeast Asia 5000 years ago, setting up dramatic shifts in regional civilizations, suggests a new study of cave rocks in northern Laos. The researchers believe the drought began when the drying of the distant Sahara Desert disrupted monsoon rains […]