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Health & MedicineDog dust may benefit infant immune systems
Microbes from pet-owning houses protected mice against allergy, infection.
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ArchaeologyEaster Island’s farmers cultivated social resilience, not collapse
A Polynesian society often presumed to have self-destructed shows signs of having carried on instead.
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ClimateTornado intensity climbs in the United States
Larger paths of destruction may be tied to climate change.
By Meghan Rosen -
LifeAnimal origins shift to comb jellies
Genetic data confirm the marine predators have more ancient origin than simpler sponges.
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PaleontologyFleshy comb is first found on a dinosaur
A fossil head has both a duck bill and a soft-tissue crest, scientists suggest.