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  1. Animals

    Chimp chatter is a lot more like human language than previously thought

    Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

    By Jake Buehler
  2. Health & Medicine

    How to fight Lyme may lie in the biology of its disease-causing bacteria

    The unusual molecular makeup of Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease, may hold clues for understanding and treating the tick-borne disease.

    By Leah Rosenbaum
  3. Plants

    Putrid plants can reek of hot rotting flesh with one evolutionary trick

    Some stinky plants independently evolved an enzyme to take the same molecule behind our bad breath and turn it into the smell of rotting flesh.