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  1. Animals

    Same math describes relationship between diverse predators and prey

    From lions to plankton, predators have about the same relationship to the amount of prey, a big-scale ecology study predicts.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    How farm life can prevent allergies

    Farm dust prevents allergies by turning on an anti-inflammatory enzyme in the cells lining mice’s lungs.

    By Meghan Rosen
  3. Anthropology

    Ancient pottery maps route to South Pacific

    New Guinea pottery points to a key meeting of island natives and seafarers at least 3,000 years ago.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Life

    Unhelpful adaptations can speed up evolution

    Unhelpful changes in gene activity stimulate natural selection.