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- Humans
New ancestor grasped at walking
By 3.4 million years ago, two human relatives built differently for upright movement inhabited East Africa.
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- Life
Fossils show signs of earliest burrowing
Worms’ seafloor tunneling more than a half-billion years ago could have stirred up evolutionary forces.
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- Life
The farther the better for corals after oil spill
Deepwater organisms may be slow to recover from Gulf accident.
- Chemistry
Protons on the move find novel molecular route
Hydrogen bonds aren’t the only means of proton travel to another molecule, a study finds.
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- Health & Medicine
Fatty diet leads to fat-loving brain cells
A study in mice links a high-fat diet to changes in the brain that might encourage weight gain.
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- Planetary Science
Highlights from the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, March 19-23
Geologic activity and weather on Saturnian moons, and studies in Greenland to learn about Mars.
- Humans
Growth-promoting antibiotics: On the way out?
Sixty-two years later — to the day — after Science News ran its first story on the growth-promoting effects of antibiotics, a federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration to resume efforts to outlaw such nonmedical use of antibiotics.
