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When we were prey
Bite marks on a 2-million-year-old human jaw suggest leopards once hunted people as prey. People likely survived by learning to team up.
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Scientists Say: Paradox
When gut instinct leads you astray, paradoxes can point the right way.
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AI … in space!
In WALL-E, artificial intelligence runs an entire ship. Real-life AI, though, is too finicky and prone to mistakes to manage that.
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Analyze This: Spooky feelings may come from noises too low to hear
People exposed to low infrasound frequencies had higher levels of a stress hormone in spit and were more likely to rate music as sad.
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This microbe turns into a ‘Hulk’ that eats its own kind
The shape-shifting transformation of Euplotes gigatrox may reveal how early life learned to act in complex ways.
