Philip Anderson, legendary theorist whose ideas shaped modern physics, dies
Philip Anderson, the theoretical physicist whose ideas reshaped condensed matter physics and stretched to the forefront of other fields, died
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Daniel Greenberg, science journalism pioneer who shaped Science’s News section, dies at 88
Daniel Greenberg, a journalist who pioneered coverage of the intersection of science and politics and was an influential early leader
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Global human genomes reveal rich genetic diversity shaped by complex evolutionary history
A new study has provided the most comprehensive analysis of human genetic diversity to date, after the sequencing of 929
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Indus civilization shaped by seasonal rains
STAFF REPORT IBD: Climate change may have determined the fate of the ancient world’s most expansive civilization. A new study suggests that the waning of monsoons spurred both the rise and fall of the Harappans, who flourished in the floodplains of the Indus Valley thousands of years ago.Small floods driven by the rains nourished the crops of early cities but proved unreliable generations later, researchers have recently reported online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.&
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