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  1. Animals

    Flesh Eaters: Bees that strip carrion also take wasp young

    A South American bee that ignores flowers and collects carrion from carcasses has an unexpected taste for live, abandoned wasp young.

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  2. Anthropology

    Some Primates’ Sheltered Lives: Baboons, chimps enter the realm of cave

    In separate studies, researchers have gathered the first systematic evidence showing that baboons and chimpanzees regularly use caves, a behavior many anthropologists have attributed only to people and our direct ancestors.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Pregnancy Alert: Proteins may predict preeclampsia

    Blood concentrations of two proteins that affect blood vessel growth appear to foretell the pregnancy condition known as preeclampsia.