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(Newser) - A new study challenges the long-held idea that dinosaurs were already on the verge of extinction when a giant asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. Instead, new research suggests they were thriving up until the moment disaster struck. The study, published in Science , relies on improved dating techniques applied...

(Newser) - Fifteen years after the journal Science published a bombshell study with the potential to rewrite the rules of how life can form, the journal is retracting the paper, reports Nature . The authors of the paper adamantly disagree with the decision.

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(Newser) - A precedent in the world of science that isn't all that comforting: A federal advisory board has asked the journals Science and Nature to censor parts of new research on a flu virus so bioterrorists can't start a pandemic, reports the New York Times . Researchers in the US...