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A new study used drone technology to map a portion of Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park. It's challenging a long-standing method of dating dinosaur fossils.

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Kara Tointon has double mastectomy after gene test

The actress, 41, reveals she has had preventative surgery after learning she carries the BRCA gene.

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The people who think AI might become conscious

With a leap in the evolution of large language models, some leading thinkers are questioning whether AI might become sentient

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Hierarchical Evolutionary-Development Theory: Towards a New Theory of Evolution, by Carlos Ochoa, from Springer Nature. (May 31).

Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transfrom our Lives, Work, and World, by Jamie Metzl, from Timer Press. (May 24).

Programmable Planet: The Synthetic Biology Revolution, by Ted Anton, from Columbia University Press. (May 17).

Handbook of Evolutionary Machine Learning, by Wolfgang Banzhaf, from Springer Nature. (May 10).

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Jun 5 17:03Shikimate Kinase-Like 1 Participates in an Ancient and Conserved Role Contributing to Chloroplast Biogenesis in Land Plants by Michael Kanaris and others (MBE)
Jun 5 17:03HGTs are not SPRs: In the presence of ghost lineages, series of Horizontal Gene Transfers do not result in series of Subtree Pruning and Regrafting by Eric Tannier and others (MBE)
Jun 5 17:03Rates of evolution of developmental changes in gene expression in Sordariomycetes by Yen-Wen Wang and others (MBE)
Jun 5 17:03Amino acid patterns in independent lineages of vocal learning and other birds give insights into convergent evolution by Chul Lee and others (GBE)
Jun 5 17:03Unicore Enables Scalable and Accurate Phylogenetic Reconstruction with Structural Core Genes by Dongwook Kim and others (GBE)
Jun 5 17:03Highlight: =93Jumping Genes=94 Caught in an Aging Merry-Go-Round by Pedro Andrade and others (GBE)
Jun 4 20:00Parallel sensory compensation following independent subterranean colonization by groundwater salamanders (Eurycea) - Ruben U. , et al. (PNAS)
Jun 4 20:00Convergent expansions of keystone gene families drive metabolic innovation in Saccharomycotina yeasts - Kyle T. , et al. (PNAS)
Jun 4 20:00Population sequencing for phylogenetic diversity and transmission analyses - Talima Pearson, et al. (PNAS)
Jun 4 20:00Natural dispersal is better than translocation for reducing risks of inbreeding depression in eastern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) - Ronald. V. , et al. (PNAS)

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