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Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans
Many of us carry DNA inherited from Neanderthals, but we can鈥檛 be sure how it affects us. Stem cells with Neanderthal DNA could tell us
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Ferocious pack-hunting pseudoscorpions believe in sharing fairly
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Bonobos barely use their opposable thumbs when climbing trees
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People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result
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Mistletoe’s cells are broken at a fundamental level
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Earth
Ancient humans in Philippines may have given rise to 鈥榟obbits鈥�
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Identity crisis: When is a dinosaur not a dinosaur?
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Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out
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How some resistant bacteria can even eat antibiotics as food
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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land
A plant fossil that lay unnoticed for a century is unexpectedly large for something so old, and it could upend our ideas about the evolution of land plants
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Origin of our species: Why humans were once so much more diverse
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Ants build a medieval 鈥榯orture rack鈥� to catch grasshoppers
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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early
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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains
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