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  1. Archaeology

    How the house mouse tamed itself

    When people began to settle down, animals followed. Some made successful auditions as our domesticated species. Others — like mice — became our vermin, a new study shows.

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  2. Animals

    Dogs flub problem-solving test

    Confronting a tough task, dogs are more likely than wolves to give up and gaze at a human

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  3. Animals

    DNA trail leads to new spot for dog domestication

    A new study suggests that dogs were first domesticated in Central Asia.

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  4. Animals

    Puff adders appear ‘invisible’ to noses

    The snakey scent of puff adders proves difficult for even sensitive animal noses to detect.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Birth control research is moving beyond the pill

    After decades of research, reproductive biologists are on the verge of developing new birth control options that stop sperm from maturing or save a woman's eggs for later.

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  6. Animals

    Pandas have ultrasonic hearing

    Giant pandas hear very high frequencies. Scientists still don’t know why.

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  7. Animals

    New book tells strange tales of evolution

    'The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar' features a cadre of critters that have evolved seemingly bizarre solutions to some of life’s biggest problems.

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  8. Psychology

    Kids’ anxieties, depression need attention

    Psychological troubles in childhood are no longer considered a part of normal development.

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  9. Neuroscience

    1960s dog brain transplant was not followed by human studies

    A pioneering study to transplant a dog’s brain led to later work on a monkey, but ethical considerations and technical know-how have prevented further work.

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  10. Animals

    Readers weigh in on mathematical animals and more

    Animal math, dinosaur digestion and more in reader feedback from our December 10, 2017, issue.

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  11. Paleontology

    Ancient armored fish revises early history of jaws

    The fossil of a 423-million-year-old armored fish from China suggests that the jaws of all modern land vertebrates and bony fish originated in a bizarre group of animals called placoderms.

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  12. Animals

    Playful pups conceived via in vitro fertilization for the first time

    Scientists have solved the mystery of how to perform in vitro fertilization in dogs, which could help rid canines of heritable diseases.

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