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LifeA fight between gut parasites means a win for people
Worms and Giardia can antagonize each other in the human intestinal tract, study of people in the Amazon suggests.
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HumansBabies learn words before birth
Brain responses suggest infants can distinguish distinct words from altered versions that they learned in the womb.
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PsychologyBehavioral research may overstate results
'Soft' sciences inflate support for what scientists expected to find, data check suggests.
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EarthBreakups maintain barchan dune fields, somehow
Two new theories try to explain how the crescent-shaped sand mountains persist.
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Astronomy‘Space beads’ push back origins of iron working
Ancient Egyptians used advanced techniques to make beads out of 'metal from the sky.'