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PaleontologyL.A.’s Oldest Tourist Trap
Modern excavations at the La Brea tar pits are revealing a wealth of information about local food chains during recent ice ages, as well as details about what happened to trapped animals in their final hours.
By Sid Perkins -
Reef Relations
The discovery of humanlike genes in coral means that the common ancestor of both humans and coral was more complex than previously assumed.
By John Travis -
Health & MedicineViruses depend on shocking proteins
To replicate within a cell, a bird virus must force the cell to make certain proteins.
By John Travis -
Health & MedicineDrugs slow aging in worms
Drugs that defuse so-called free radicals lengthen a worm's life span by more than 50 percent.