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  1. Microbes

    A Greenland explorer will eat only decaying seal for a month

    British chef Mike Keen will ski across Greenland eating only fermented seal. Researchers will study how the Inuit diet shapes gut health.

    By Sujata Gupta
  2. Humans

    An ancient bone recasts how Indigenous Australians treated megafauna

    A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

    By Richard Kemeny
  3. Health & Medicine

    These scientists have a plan to demystify the vaginal microbiome

    Vaginal microbes play a huge role in overall health, but researchers know relatively little about them. Citizen science could help change that.