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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.

Anthropology

How an ancient stone money system works like cryptocurrency

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

Microbes

How a slime mold near death packs bacteria to feed the next generation

Social amoebas that farm bacteria for food use proteins to preserve the crop for their offspring.

Planetary Science

What does Mars’ lake mean for the search for life on the Red Planet?

A lake spotted hiding under Martian ice could support life, but finding out if anything lives there could be challenging.