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- Anthropology
Contested signs of mass cannibalism
A new study yields controversial evidence of mass cannibalism in central Europe 7,000 years ago.
By Bruce Bower - Health & Medicine
Brain doesn’t sort by visual cues alone
Blind and sighted people’s brains sort the living from the nonliving in the same way, suggesting this ability may be hard-wired.
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- Life
His master’s yawn
When humans open up for a jaw-stretcher, so do their best friends.
By Susan Milius - Health & Medicine
Bad air for growing brains and minds
Preliminary evidence suggests that children’s regular exposure to heavy air pollution can be accompanied by brain inflammation and lowered scores on intelligence tests.
By Bruce Bower - Science & Society
Kids’ gestures foretell better vocabularies
Toddlers who gesture more at age 14 months possess larger vocabularies when entering school, new research finds.
- Planetary Science
Award named for late Science News writer
Jonathan Eberhart's name lives on in a new planetary-sciences award.
By Janet Raloff - Earth
When the Great Lakes were lower
New archaeological evidence shows signs of prehistoric hunting and other human activities on now-submerged portions of Lake Huron.
By Sid Perkins - Physics
Molecule turns red at breaking point
Materials made with a color-changing molecule may offer a red signal when under stress.
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Of Swine and Men
Scientists study H1N1’s past to predict what the virus has in store.
- Health & Medicine
Lab-animal allergies in office workers
Animal allergens may escape the lab.
By Janet Raloff