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In Africa, Birds and Humans Form a Unique Honey Hunting Party
Tribesmen and honeyguides share an ancient pact and communicate in trills and grunts, scientists report. The shared goal: beehives full of honey and wax.
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CreditAndrew White for The New York Times The Science of Fat
Skinny and 119 Pounds, but With the Health Hallmarks of Obesity
A small group of thin patients who develop disorders typically tied to obesity pose a medical mystery and a potential opportunity for scientists.
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Continents Split Up at the Same Speed Finger Nails Grow. And That’s Fast.
As the supercontinent Pangea broke apart, its pieces entered phases where they accelerated to speeds 20 times as fast as they were traveling before
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Updated Brain Map Identifies Nearly 100 New Regions
Data from 1,200 brain scans performed as part of the Human Connectome Project allowed researchers to unveil the brain’s hidden geography.
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CreditFacebook Connectivity Lab Facebook Moves One Step Closer to Light-Based Wireless Communication
Researchers from Facebook’s Connectivity Lab have created a new light detector for receiving communication signals through laser beams
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CreditPhil McLean/Minden Pictures Two’s Company, Three’s a Lichen?
New research challenges the one fungus-one alga paradigm of how lichens form.
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CreditESA/MPS/DLR/IDA How Mountains Obscured by Venus’s Clouds Reveal Themselves
Data from Europe’s Venus Express spacecraft has helped researchers better understand the hurricane-like winds that blast the second planet from the sun.
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CreditAndrei Narkevitch The Otherworldly Polka Dots of Spotted Lake
As British Columbia dries out every summer, most of Spotted Lake’s water evaporates, leaving hundreds of briny pools.
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CreditBenoit Bertrand Old Teeth Tell New Stories About People Who Didn’t Get Enough Sun
Researchers discovered a permanent record of vitamin D deficiency in old teeth that could provide insights on rickets and children’s health today.
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CreditSKA South Africa South African Telescope Spots 1,300 Unknown Galaxies
The distant galaxies were recorded by a set of 16 antennas that will eventually be a part of the largest telescope ever built on Earth.
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CreditKonrad Wothe/Minden Pictures Too Many Deer on the Road? Let Cougars Return, Study Says
A repopulation of cougars in the Eastern U.S., with their steady diet of deer, could reduce the number of lives lost to deer-automobile collisions.
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CreditKenzo Tribouillard/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Why Jet Lag Can Feel Worse When You Travel From West to East
Researchers produced a mathematical model of certain brain cells to help explain why travel’s toll on fliers feels more severe in one direction than the other.
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CreditBernard Meric/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images An Icelandic Volcano Reveals Secrets of Its Eruption
The gradual collapse of the top of Bardarbunga volcano in 2014 contributed to a lengthy lava flow.
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CreditAntone Martinho Duck, Duck, Goose, Goose. Newborn Ducklings Judge Shapes and Color
New evidence suggests that 1-day-old ducklings can distinguish between same and different with no training required.
