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  1. Health & Medicine

    A medical mystery reveals a new host for the rat lungworm parasite

    Doctors report that A. cantonensis was transmitted to two people who ate raw centipedes, but you can get it from other creatures as well.

    By Leah Rosenbaum
  2. Neuroscience

    Anxiety in monkeys is linked to hereditary brain traits

    A key brain connection may be behind childhood anxiety, brain scans of monkeys suggest.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Health & Medicine

    This tick may play a part in gumming up your arteries

    Having antibodies to a sugar tied to red-meat allergy is associated with more plaque in the artery walls, a small study shows.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  4. Anthropology

    How an ancient stone money system works like cryptocurrency

    Money has ancient and mysterious pedigrees that go way beyond coins.