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  1. Anthropology

    Evolutionary Shrinkage: Stone Age Homo find offers small surprise

    Scientists announced the discovery of the partial skeleton of a small-bodied Homo species that inhabited an eastern Indonesian island from at least 38,000 years ago until about 18,000 years ago.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Animals

    Familiar face calms stressed-out sheep

    The sight of the face of a familiar sheep seems to reduce stress in troubled sheep.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Tech

    Wee wires that can crawl

    Self-propelled strands of a muscle protein coated with gold offer a way to arrange and control the nanoworld.

    By Peter Weiss
  4. Animals

    When bluebirds fight, bet on the bluest

    The male bluebirds with the bluest (and most ultraviolet) plumage turned out to be the toughest competitors in a study of who won the rights to prime nest boxes.