We often make new discoveries about our ancient ancestors and how they may have behaved, and we sometimes find the evidence right…
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Aggregators Our 200,000-Year-Old Ancestors: Neanderthal Bones in Northern France
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Topic Focus Hey, Excuse Me… Is This Guy Boring You?
Imagine that you’re sitting on a Cretan beach. The sun’s shining and waves are lapping on shore, when suddenly a set of…
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Aggregators Worms in the Big Apple: Identifying Patterns of Toxocariasis Infection in New York City
For thousands of Americans, roundworm infection may pose a serious threat to their health. Toxocariasis, an illness caused by a parasitic roundworm…
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Worth A Thousand Words Catch the Katydid if You Can
It’s too fast to catch, spears smaller insects with spiny legs, and sings a song that mirrors the syllables of its…
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Aggregators Detection by Dung: Don’t Eat the Brown Snow
Researchers in Antarctica on a mission to locate penguin colonies found two groups of seabirds, thanks to a little help from satellites…
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Aggregators Sharing is Caring: Varied Diets in Dinosaurs Promoted Coexistence
Everyone loves a good dinosaur discovery. Though they’re few and far between, sometimes we get lucky, finding feather imprints, mohawks, or birthing…
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Aggregators Does the Fox Say, “I Love Living in the City?”
Most wild animals move away from areas heavily populated by humans, noisy cars, and sparse natural habitat. Some, however, thrive in…
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Aggregators Music, Language, and the Brain: Are You Experienced?
Have you ever thought about everything that goes into playing music or speaking two languages? Musicians for example need to listen to…
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Worth A Thousand Words Modern Humans: Were We Really Better than Neanderthals, or Did We Just Get Lucky?
We’ve all heard the story: dim-witted Neanderthals couldn’t quite keep up with our intelligent modern human ancestors, leading to their eventual downfall…
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Aggregators Awl be Darned: Metal Arrived in the Southern Levant Long Before Previously Thought
The Copper Age, sometimes referred to as the Chalcolithic period, was a time of technological transition for humans. As stone tools gave…
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Aggregators Squirrels – Nut Sleuths or Just Nuts?
Crazed squirrels: we’ve all seen them. Some dashing toward you only to stop short long enough to glare with beady eyes before…
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Images A Disease of Considerable Antiquity: Cancer Detected in a Nubian Skeleton
Cancer, the transformation of normal cells into malignant tumor cells, reigns among diseases as one of the leading causes of death around…