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DNA evidence is persuasive that James Blaesing, 70, is the grandson of the 29th president and his mistress. But his cousins are upset by his plan to exhume Harding's remains with a reality TV crew.

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The Vikings Were More Complicated Than You Might Think

One of the biggest surveys ever of ancient DNA offers new evidence of who the Vikings were and where they went raiding and trading.

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Humanity is at a crossroads and action is needed to slow nature's accelerating decline, says the UN.

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Sep 18 16:00Drivers of mating type composition in Tetrahymena thermophila - Guangying Wang et al. (GBE)
Sep 18 16:00Comprehensive transcriptome of the maize stalk borer, Busseola fusca, from multiple tissue types, developmental stages, and parasitoid wasp exposures - Kayla M Hardwick et al. (GBE)
Sep 18 16:00Genus-wide characterization of bumblebee genomes provides insights into their evolution and variation in ecological and behavioral traits - Cheng Sun et al. (MBE)
Sep 17 16:00Different sources of allelic variation drove repeated color pattern divergence in cichlid fishes - Sabine Urban, Alexander Nater, Axel Meyer, Claudius F Kratochwil (MBE)
Sep 17 16:00Potential pathogenicity determinants identified from structural proteomics of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 - Erica T Prates et al. (MBE)
Sep 17 16:00Historical introgression from wild relatives enhanced climatic adaptation and resistance to pneumonia in sheep - Yin-Hong Cao et al. (MBE)
Sep 17 16:00Tracing the diploid ancestry of the cultivated octoploid strawberry - Chao Feng et al. (MBE)
Sep 17 16:00Signatures of introgression across the allele frequency spectrum - Simon H Martin, William Amos (MBE)
Sep 16 20:00Reconstruction of the birth of a male sex chromosome present in Atlantic herring - Nima Rafati et al. (PNAS)
Sep 16 12:00Stochastic gain and loss of novel transcribed open reading frames in the human lineage - Daniel Dowling, Jonathan F Schmitz, Erich Bornberg-Bauer (GBE)

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