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  1. Health & Medicine

    Cholera pandemics are fueled by globe-trotting bacterial strains

    International cholera strains, rather than local ones, have caused raging epidemics, according to research that examined the bacteria’s DNA.

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  2. Physics

    Why the wiggle in a crowd’s walk can put a wobble in a bridge

    New simulations can better predict when pedestrians cause a bridge to shimmy.

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  3. Anthropology

    Ancient European farmers and foragers hooked up big time

    Interbreeding escalated in regionally distinct ways across Neolithic Europe.

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  4. Animals

    This deep-sea fish uses weird eyes to see in dark and light

    The eyes of deep-sea fish called pearlsides contain cells that look like rods but act like cones.