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AnthropologyScript Delivery: New World writing takes disputed turn
Researchers announced, to considerable controversy, that inscriptions found on artifacts at an Olmec site in southeastern Mexico represented the earliest known writing system in the Americas.
By Bruce Bower -
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Contrary to your article, animal cells do not possess “cell walls,” as suggested by “proteases are usually much smaller and don’t inhabit cell walls.” Plants have cell walls; animal cells are bound by a single lipid bilayer membrane. David Winialski Tallahassee, Fla.
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Debate over Alzheimer’s enzyme flares up
Scientists continue to tussle over the identity of an enzyme implicated in Alzheimer's disease.
By John Travis -
EarthAlgal bloom is smothering Florida coral
The anomalous growth of a native alga—now blanketing the seabed in a huge swath off the southern coast of Florida—points to overfertilization with upwelling sewage.