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Neuroscience

Anxiety in monkeys is linked to hereditary brain traits

A key brain connection may be behind childhood anxiety, brain scans of monkeys suggest.

Health & Medicine

This tick may play a part in gumming up your arteries

Having antibodies to a sugar tied to red-meat allergy is associated with more plaque in the artery walls, a small study shows.

Anthropology

How an ancient stone money system works like cryptocurrency

Money has ancient and mysterious pedigrees that go way beyond coins.

Microbes

How a slime mold near death packs bacteria to feed the next generation

Social amoebas that farm bacteria for food use proteins to preserve the crop for their offspring.