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    Unlike some, I find no problem with the idea of hybrids between ancestors of chimpanzees and humans. We have to assume that any speciation event will be protracted. The collection of genes that separate humans from apes would hardly have arisen in a single individual. From my study of dabbling ducks, I have come to […]

    By Science News
  2. Materials Science

    Feeling cagey

    Researchers have discovered that gold can take the shape of nanoscale, hollow cages.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  3. Astronomy

    Safe from a Heavenly Doom: Gamma-ray bursts not a threat to Earth

    Gamma-ray bursts are likely to occur in the Milky Way.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Health & Medicine

    Bug Zapper: Novel drug kills resistant bacteria

    A newly recognized compound can wipe out some of the most troublesome antibiotic-resistant bacteria, lab tests show.