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Chimps and Toddlers Use Same Gestures to Get Attention
A new study shows 12 to 24 month old children and chimps use 46 of the same movements to communicate, including stomping, pointing and clapping
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These Teen Birds Love Sleeping In, Too
A new study suggests young grassland songbirds postpone fledging in order to mooch off mom and dad as long as they can
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How This Popular Garden Plant May Spread Parasites That Harm Monarchs
Non-native tropical milkweed encourage year-round monarch populations which harbor a deadly parasite for the imperiled insect
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Was Mona Lisa’s Enigmatic Smile Caused by a Thyroid Condition?
Doctor theorizes that the sitter’s lank hair, weak smile and yellowing skin point to post-pregnancy hypothyroidism
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Your Hysterical Tweet About That Spider in Your Sink Could Prove Useful for Science
A new study suggests mining social media for phenology data is fairly reliable and could assist researchers tracking how rapidly the world is changing
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In the Last Decade, Four Birds Went Extinct and Four More Are Likely Gone
Habitat loss is the main culprit in killing off the birds, including Spix’s macaw, the star of the popular 2011 film Rio
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Astronomers Spot Galactic Wind From Early Universe
The ejection of molecular gas from a galaxy 12 billion light-years away may have kept an early galaxy from burning out too quickly
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How Did These Hostage Children End Up Buried With Elite Germanic Warriors?
Analysis of remains in a high status grave shows that not all of the deceased were directly related, raising questions about why they were buried together
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Jupiter’s Magnetic Field Is Super Weird and Has Two South Poles
Analysis of data from the Juno probe shows the giant planet’s field is much different from our own and suggests it has a dissolved core
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Traces of 7,200-Year-Old Cheese Found in Croatia
A new study posits that cheese production may have helped ancient farmers expand into Europe
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Can Napoleon’s Defeat at Waterloo Be Traced to a Volcanic Eruption in Indonesia?
A new study posits that an 1815 eruption caused inclement weather that, according to some theories, led to Napoleon’s defeat
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Genome Reveals When Opium Poppy Became a Painkiller
A combination of two genes over 7.8 million years ago was the first step to producing morphine and other narcotic compounds
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Gene Editing Treats Muscular Dystrophy in Dogs
CRISPR gene editing has relieved symptoms of a canine version of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in four puppies, raising hope for humans
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Newly Discovered Hybrid Pythons Are Threatening Florida’s Wildlife
A new study has found that some invasive Burmese pythons carry DNA from another snake, which could make them more adaptable—and more dangerous
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Monster Galaxy Churns Out 1,000 Times As Many Stars As Our Own
COSMOS-AzTEC-1 is almost 13 billion years old highly organized but unstable and could shed light on galaxy evolution
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New Zealand Penguins Make an Epic, Pointless, Swim to the Southern Ocean
A new satellite study shows the penguins travel over 4,000 miles to feed, even though their home shores are teeming with food
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Climate Change Likely Iced Neanderthals Out Of Existence
Climate records gathered from stalagmites in Romanian caves show two extremely cold dry periods correspond with the disappearance of Neanderthals
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Goats May Prefer Happy Human Faces
A new study found that goats gravitate towards images of smiling people, suggesting that they can distinguish between human expressions
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Meet the Rosehip Neuron: A Newly Discovered Cell in the Human Brain
The neuron is not found within lab mice, possibly explaining why mouse studies often do not translate to human brains
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DNA of Extinct Cave Bear Lives on in Modern Brown Bears
A new genetic study has found that the two species interbred
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