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Health & Medicine

Inflammation linked to diabetes

Women who go on to develop diabetes seem to have signs of widespread, low-level inflammation years before they have symptoms of the disease.

Ecosystems

Fish stocking may transmit toad disease

Hatchery-raised trout can transfer a deadly fungus to western toads, bolstering the view that fish stocking may play a role in amphibian population declines.

Paleontology

Neandertals, humans may have grown apart

A controversial fossil analysis finds that the skulls of Neandertals and humans grew in markedly different ways.

Animals

Roach gals get less choosy as time goes by

As their first reproductive peak wanes, female cockroaches become more like male ones, willing to mate with any potential partner that moves.