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  1. Anthropology

    Skulls from ancient London suggest ritual decapitations

    The city’s Roman rulers had special watery places to keep the heads of military enemies or vanquished gladiators.

    By Bruce Bower

  2. Polar bears have seen hard times

    Two genetic studies extend the Arctic icon’s lineage way back.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Humans

    Pots bear oldest signs of cheese making

    Some of Europe’s first farmers created perforated vessels to separate curds from whey.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Science & Society

    Alternatives needed to do-it-yourself feces swaps

    Three researchers are calling for the FDA to regulate feces as a human tissue rather than a drug to make it easier for doctors to perform fecal transplants.

    By Erika Engelhaupt
  5. Astronomy

    Cradled galaxies betray violent past

    Hubble snaps ‘the Penguin’ and its egg-shaped companion.

    By Jessica Shugart
  6. Science & Society

    Flu drug research takes Intel STS top honors

    A teenager’s computer analyses that identified six potential new flu-fighting compounds claimed first place at the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search.

    By Sid Perkins
  7. Genetics

    Ancient famine-fighting genes can’t explain obesity

    Scientists question the long-standing notion that adaptation — specifically the evolution of genes that encourage humans to hold on to fat so they can survive times of famine — has driven the obesity crisis.

    By Laura Beil
  8. Planetary Science

    Old rover finds new evidence of water on Mars

    Opportunity’s analysis of rocks at Endeavour crater reveals chemistry that could have supported life.

    By Meghan Rosen
  9. Health & Medicine

    For babies, walking opens a whole new world

    Walking and talking are linked as babies develop, anecdote and data show.

    By Laura Sanders
  10. Chemistry

    Salt spices up chemistry

    Hot, compressed sodium chloride stretches the fundamental rules of matter.

    By Beth Mole
  11. Archaeology

    Written in bone

    Researchers are reconstructing the migrations that carried agriculture into Europe by analyzing DNA from the skeletons of early farmers and the people they displaced.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  12. Earth

    African dust once fertilized the Everglades

    Humans aren't the only source of nutrients for Florida’s wetlands. African dust may have fertilized the region thousands of years ago.

    By Beth Mole