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Microbes

Horsetail spores don’t need legs to jump

Forget legs. A plant uses curly, humidity-controlled ribbons to make epic leaps.

Animals

Avoiding feces may be ‘luxury’ wild mice can’t afford

For a mouse in the woods, finding any food at all may trump poopy locations.

Chemistry

Meteorite that fell last year contains surprising molecules

Compounds in space rocks like the one that broke up over California may have helped seed life on Earth.

Math

Egypt wasn’t built in a day, but it did rise quickly

New timeline of ancient civilization’s earliest days finds little time between earliest villages and dominant centralized state.