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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: Antimatter
Most of the universe consists of ordinary matter. But not all. A tiny fraction is matter’s mysterious twin: antimatter.
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A modern ‘snowball’ Earth? What the movies get wrong
Earth has experienced several ice ages. These can emerge almost overnight in films. Although dramatic, that timeline is truly Hollywood fiction.
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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.
