Environment
Plants have evolved a taste for sand that deters hungry insects
A mouthful of sand is no fun 鈥� and plants seem to know it. Some have evolved to take up silicon and make themselves less tasty for insects
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Earth
Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously
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Environment
Sneaky beetles evolved disguise to look like ants, then eat them
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Environment
Translucent helmeted cockroach looks like an alien with a halo
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Environment
Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains
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Earth
Traces in rock may be the oldest evidence of life on Earth ever
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Environment
The opposite birds: What wiped out the ancient rulers of the sky
Features
Environment
Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago
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Humans
Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes
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Health
Desert people evolve to drink water poisoned with deadly arsenic
People living in the Atacama desert of Chile evolved specific gene mutations over the past 7000 years that make them better at detoxifying the heavy metal
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Environment
Big builder ants and tiny guard ants live together in one nest
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Earth
How the world made us: chance and climate in the human story
Culture
Life
Dormouse might be first tree-climbing mammal shown to echolocate
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Environment
Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down
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