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Study Finds Men Who Support the Tradwife Trend Are Driven by Resentment, Not Chivalry

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Japan Lives Longer Because Its Care Homes Keep Frail People Alive, Not Because Its Population Is Healthier

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The Officers Most Likely to Cause Problems Already Had a Record

George Washington Carver Addition in 1961 with present day I-70

Tuskegee Airmen’s Neighborhood Was Demolished for a Highway. Now It Exists Again in Virtual Reality

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19 Million Americans Have Thought About Shooting Someone

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The Politicians Who Treat Congress as a Launchpad for Media Celebrity Win More Coverage and Accomplish Less

A petroglyph from Newspaper Rock, a site along Indian Creek in southeastern Utah. The rock includes images from cultures dating from 1,500 years ago to much more recent times.

The Bow Arrived Everywhere at Once, but Only Half of Hunters Ditched the Atlatl

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AI Makeup Mirror Learns What You Want by Projecting Colors Onto Your Skin

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Net Zero Is Not Enough. We Need to Pull Carbon from the Air for Centuries

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How Greg Abbott Bused 100,000 Migrants Directly Into Trump’s Electoral Column

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A White House Briefing Changed How Doctors Prescribed Drugs Overnight

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Falling Birth Rates in Wealthy Nations May Boost Living Standards

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More Years of U.S. Football Linked to Worse Cognitive, Psychiatric Outcomes in Later Life

While modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA scattered across our genomes, our X chromosomes remain surprisingly devoid of these ancient sequences. This infographic, based on a groundbreaking study by Platt et al. in Science, illustrates the surprising reason why: "mate preference," not natural selection. The research reveals a striking inheritance mismatch, suggesting a strong preference for specific mating pairs—predominantly Neanderthal males with human females—that shaped the unique genetic landscape of both species.

Neanderthal Men and Human Women Drove Most Interbreeding Between the Two Species

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