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- Humans
Smells like a bear raid
Analysis of stock trading data suggests an effort to manipulate the market in 2007.
- Humans
Pottery cooked from the start
Japanese sites yield late Stone Age evidence of people heating fish in ceramic vessels.
- Chemistry
Caffeine’s buzz attracts bees to flowers
Nectar of some blooms carries the drug, which improves bee memory.
- Humans
Human ancestors had taste for meat, brains
A mix of hunting and scavenging fed carnivorous cravings of early Homo species.
- Life
Ancient horse’s DNA fills in picture of equine evolution
An entire genome compiled from a 700,000-year-old bone yields new information about equine history.
- Genetics
Technique inactivates Down-causing chromosome
Though far from a cure, the advance could eventually lead to gene therapy that alleviates some symptoms.
- Physics
Hard times for theorists in a post-Higgs world
The Large Hadron Collider’s big success leaves no clear avenue for new physics.
- Astronomy
Quiet maximum
By almost any measure, this solar maximum has been pathetic. No more than 67 sunspots have appeared in a month so far; at the last peak, in 2000, that number was above 120.
- Life
Chill turns monarchs north
Temperature manipulation appears to solve mystery of what triggers migratory butterflies’ homeward trip.
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