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With webbed feet and venomous claws, the furry duck-billed platypus has a little bit of everything, and its genome does too. More

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A special place Two proposed studies might determine whether dark energy is real or humans live in a special place in the cosmos Read the full story. Found in: Atom & Cosmos
Lost and found Former child soldiers in Africa often adjust well to community life if they receive group rehabilitation and community acceptance, studies indicate Read the full story. Found in: Behavior
Slowpoke settlers Evidence suggests New World settlers slowly moved down the Pacific Coast and inhabited southern Chile by 14,000 years ago. Read the full story. Found in: Humans
Smart microbes Bacteria are smarter than you might think. Single-celled microbes can learn to predict changes in their environments and prepare themselves. Read the full story. Found in: Biomedicine
Flooring the cosmic accelerator If cosmologist Will Percival of the University of Portsmouth in England is right, the universe will end about 60 billion years from now, when every molecule and atom will be torn asunder by a mysterious entity that opposes gravity’s pull and turns it into a cosmic push. Read the full story. Found in: Atom & Cosmos

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The undeciders
More decision-makers bring less efficiency Found in: Science & Society
Sticky when wet
Efficient production of mussel protein could have medical applications Found in: Biomedicine
Duckbill decoded
The platypus’ genome holds secrets to molecular evolution Found in: Biology, Genes & Cells and Life
A little drier every day
The climate of the Sahara Desert shifted much more slowly than once thought Found in: Climate Change, Earth and Environment
Risky nests
Invader grass tricks song sparrows Found in: Environment and Life
A new look at the gamma-ray sky
Explosions pouring out as much energy in seconds as the sun does in its entire lifetime. Invisible beams of radiation sweeping across the sky like g... Found in: Atom & Cosmos

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