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  1. Science & Society

    The golden age of language was a few thousand years ago

    A few millennia ago, people worldwide may have spoken or signed up to 10 times as many languages as they do today.

    By Sujata Gupta
  2. Animals

    Watch an orca ram into a sunfish so hard it explodes

    This strategy expands orcas’ already broad repertoire for dispatching different types of prey.

    By Maria Temming
  3. Paleontology

    A rare 3-D snake fossil is ssspilling sssecrets of its unusual lifestyle

    A new snake’s unique head anatomy suggests early snakes were even more diverse than thought. This one was a rare burrower.

    By Libby Riddle
  4. Astronomy

    A newly found world blurs the boundary between planet and moon

    The object orbits a brown dwarf that orbits a star, and astronomers aren’t sure if it’s a planet, a moon — or something else entirely.