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Fruit-eating mastodons? Ancient fossils confirm a long-lost ecological alliance

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of…

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Health

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine moves : Shots

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (R) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Martin Makary at…

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Health

Ancient Native American agricultural site’s true extent revealed : NPR

Jonathan Alperstein, one of the researchers, excavates a portion of land on an ancient agricultural site in Michigan. Jesse Casana…

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World

New method provides the key to accessing proteins in ancient human remains

A new method developed by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, could soon unlock the vast…

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Environment

Humans moving to ancient cities sent bedbug numbers soaring, say scientists | Science

They survived the catastrophe that wiped out the dinosaurs, but bedbugs were in decline until the invention of the city,…

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Food & Drink

The Ancient African Grain, Fonio, Might Be the Future of Beer

In Person of Interest we talk to the people catching our eye right now about what they’re doing, eating, reading,…

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Health

Toothache from eating something cold? Blame these ancient fish

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives…

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World

Ancient ocean sediments link changes in currents to cooling of Northern Hemisphere 3.6 million years ago

New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time…

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World

Dexterity and climbing ability: how ancient human relatives used their hands

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Research…

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Environment

Council leader accepted Spurs tickets days before felling of ancient oak | London

The leader of Enfield council is under pressure to recuse himself from decisions over the property plans of Tottenham Hotspur,…

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