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Why cows have four stomachs, a new development in wireless electricity, babies' surprising eye for language, a genetic typo detector, and an archaeological debunking.
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A recipe for life on Mars, how Alzheimer's and herpes are related, amnesia obscures the future as well as the past, a zoo exhibit features humans, and what the appendix is for.
Neanderthal Roundup
Little is known about the Neanderthals, a close extinct relative of modern humans. But that could be about to change.
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Your birthday greetings to us, hopeful news about malaria in Africa, robots that can recover from injury, news about Neanderthals, the truth about lie detectors, and money brings out the best and the worst in us.
Precious Aglets
Brass shoelace tags were more valuable than gold to indigenous Cubans at the time of Columbus.
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The truth about star naming, a practical plan for getting rid of fossil fuels, imitating gecko feet, worms in your diet, and why we have a bias against foreigners.
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An evolutionary reason for morning sickness, fibers that act as eyes, a South American culture that puts the past ahead, Wal-Mart's economic impact, and new insights from Darwin's Finches.
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Deciphering horses' whinnies, how apes plan ahead, the science of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, getting really mad over little things, and whether booze can cure a cold.
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A condition that makes people pointless, preparing for a pandemic, an early apelike ancestor, a hearing aid in glasses, and promising results about avian flu.
Autism and IQ
There's a lot of talk about an autism epidemic these days. But what if autism isn't a disease at all?
Beauty Bias
New research may reveal the root of our preference for attractive people.
Deprived Children
Many countries place orphaned and abandoned children in institutions, where they may get food and shelter but little love. A new study is looking into how this type of environment damages children--and what we can do to heal them.
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Cocoa's cardiovascular kick, the truth about pheromone perfumes, stopping toxic runoff, reconstructing a dead language, and healing socially deprived children.
Liars’ Brains
A difference in the brains of pathological liars may be the cause of their strange behavior.
Sleepy Doctors
New doctors typically work grueling eighty-hour work weeks. A new report lays out the consequences for the patients they treat.
Crowded Teeth
Eating cooked foods caused humans' jaws to shrink over time, crowding the teeth.
Tooth Wear
Using geographical information software to map the surfaces of fossil teeth
Wasted Food
America wastes almost half of its food, from farms to warehouses to households.
Dog Domestication
Dogs understand human pointing gestures better than wolves and chimps.
Saving Aleut
A project to record the native Alaskan language Aleut before it disappears
Sympathy and Simians
Sympathy involves reenacting someone else's mental state, and orangutans show evidence of culture.
Skin Color
Different skin colors evolved to protect against UV and to make vitamin D