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  1. Life

    Early land arthropods sported shells

    Ancient ocean-dwelling arthropods may have worn shells to enable their transition to land.

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  2. Animals

    Oh, he’s such a lab bird

    Bold flycatchers may be more likely than shy birds to get trapped for lab studies.

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  3. Materials Science

    Double-laser approach makes one thin line

    Erasing and stenciling could refine tiny printing for sculpting nano-sized devices.

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  4. Anthropology

    African pygmies may be older than thought

    A new DNA analysis indicates that pygmy hunter-gatherers and farming groups in Africa diverged from a common ancestral population around 60,000 years ago.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Touch and sight push each other around

    When the fingers feel downward motion, the eyes see upward motion.