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Why some women enter menopause early — and how that could affect their cancer risk

A human fallopian tube cradles an egg (red; artificially coloured). An accumulation of mutations in eggs’ DNA are one possible

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Extreme solar storms and the quest for exact dating with radiocarbon

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Axon-like active signal transmission | Nature

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Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies

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Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal resilience and pre-European contact with the Americas

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Ancient DNA debunks Rapa Nui ‘ecological suicide’ theory

Download the Nature Podcast 11 September 2024 In this episode: 00:45 What ancient DNA has revealed about Rapa Nui’s past

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Future optoelectronics unlocked by ‘doping’ strategy

Nature, Published online: 11 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02659-0 A family of semiconductors known as perovskites has great promise for use in

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Decoding drivers of carbon flux attenuation in the oceanic biological pump

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Multi-pass, single-molecule nanopore reading of long protein strands

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Rapa Nui’s population history rewritten using ancient DNA

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