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Health & Medicine

Can humans get chronic wasting disease from deer?

Tests on brain organoids suggest the disease-causing prions face a tough barrier to infect people, but ruling out transmission is a difficult task.

Earth

Geoscientists found the most dangerous part of a famous West Coast fault

Seismic data reveal that the Cascadia megathrust consists of at least four segments, the most dangerous of which may lurk offshore of Washington.

Anthropology

Fossil finds amplify Europe’s status as a hotbed of great ape evolution

A kneecap and two teeth belonged to the smallest known great ape, a study contends. If so, it’s the first to coexist with another great ape in Europe.