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A Blended Family: Her Mother Was Neanderthal, Her Father Something Else Entirely
Genetic analysis of bones discovered in a Siberian cave hint that the prehistoric world may have been filled with “hybrid” humans.
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Photo CreditHeidi Younger Plan Bee: The Rise of Alternative Pollinators
Honeybees are under siege, straining the business of farming. Now growers are turning to other bee species to help their crops.
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Photo CreditNASA Ice on the Surface of the Moon? Almost Certainly, New Research Shows
Researchers don’t know whether the ice water runs deep, like the tips of buried icebergs, or is as thin as a layer of frost.
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Ancient Burial Pits Reveal Sophisticated Rituals
Hundreds of bodies were packed tightly in carved out bedrock, marked by pillars, a sign of organized “monumentality” by some of East Africa’s earliest herders.
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Photo CreditRamin Rahimian for The New York Times Your Spit Might Help You Learn to Eat Your Greens
When people were repeatedly exposed to bitter compounds in a study, their saliva changed to produce proteins that rendered those flavors more palatable.
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Photo CreditCharles Rolsky Before You Flush Your Contact Lenses, You Might Want to Know This
Flushing disposable contacts down the toilet or washing them down the drain may contribute to the problem of microplastic pollution, researchers said.
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Photo CreditStatens Naturoppsyn Hundreds of Reindeer Died by Lightning. Their Carcasses Became a Laboratory.
“From death comes life,” said researchers who studied how decomposing bodies, with the help of scavengers, might alter plant diversity across a broad landscape.
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Photo CreditUniversity of Catania and Cairo University Archaeologists Find 3,200-Year-Old Cheese in an Egyptian Tomb
The cheese was found in a tomb that had been thought lost to shifting sands until it was rediscovered in 2010.
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Photo CreditNASA/Reuters Settling Arguments About Hydrogen With 168 Giant Lasers
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said they were “converging on the truth” in an experiment to understand hydrogen in its liquid metallic state.
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Photo Credit Trapped in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber, a Beetle With Pilfered Pollen
The discovery is among the strongest evidence in the fossil record that the insects pollinated prehistoric cycads, a plant that preceded flowering plants.
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Photo Credit Do Penguins Mate for Life? Not According to These Paternity Tests
New research challenges assumptions that some penguins mate for life, and suggests DNA testing is needed to avoid inbred captive populations.
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Photo Credit Fossils on an Australian Beach Reveal a Shark-Eat-Shark World
An amateur fossil hunter at first found a single shark tooth. It led to signs of a prehistoric shark feast.
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Photo Credit Friendly Foxes’ Genes Offer Hints to How Dogs Became Domesticated
A long-running experiment provides clues to genes that influence friendliness to humans.
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Photo Credit Give a Cow a Brush, and Watch It Scratch That Itch
Some researchers think mechanical brushes aren’t just some spa amenity for dairy cows — they’re important to the animal’s well-being.
