Life

  1. Animals

    Monkeys’ mistake detector

    Specific brain cells in macaques respond to fellow animal’s error.

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  2. Fossils

    New Jurassic flier

    Amazingly well-preserved fossil depicts a novel flying reptile from the age of dinosaurs.

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  3. Animals

    Python-palooza!

    Monster-sized Burmese python bearing record-number of eggs retrieved in the Florida Everglades.

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  4. Genetics

    DNA hints at ancient cousins

    Scientists find evidence of an extinct humanlike species within modern-day Africans.

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  5. Microbes

    Surprising rabies resistance

    Amazon villagers survive deadly disease carried by vampire bats.

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  6. Climate

    Iron versus climate change

    Metal deposits can promote the growth of ocean algae that gobble greenhouse gas.

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  7. Genetics

    Twins don’t share everything

    Twins carry different flags on their DNA, even from birth.

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  8. Fossils

    Dino find ruffles feathers

    Nearly-perfect, newfound dinosaur fossil reveals more dinos were feathered than previously thought.

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  9. Animals

    A trout’s nose-y magnets

    Cells in a fish’s snout respond to magnets.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Tomatoes’ tasteless green gene

    The tomatoes your great-grandparents ate probably tasted little like the ones you eat today.

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  11. Fossils

    Hot or cold dinos

    Patterns in dinosaur bones fuel a debate over whether they were warm- or cold-blooded.

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  12. Animals

    Cool Jobs: Studying what you love

    Researchers study the same animals that fascinated them as kids.

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