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Microbes

50 years ago, scientists were on the trail of a brain-eating amoeba

In 1970, scientists were studying a brain-eating amoeba that had been implicated in a newfound disease. Today, infections by the parasite are still poorly understood.

Anthropology

Seven footprints may be the oldest evidence of humans on the Arabian Peninsula

In what’s now desert, people and other animals stopped to drink at a lake more than 100,000 years ago, a new study suggests.

Oceans

Underwater earthquakes’ sound waves reveal changes in ocean warming

A new technique uses the echoes of earthquakes in seawater to track the impact of climate change on the oceans.