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- Space
Atom & Cosmos
How to hunt for extraterrestrials, plus cosmic bursts, horseshoe orbits and more in this week’s news.
By Science News - Humans
Killing fields of ancient Syria revealed
Stone corrals were used to trap whole herds of animals for mass slaughter.
- Anthropology
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Hobbit dentistry, ancient footprints and navigating gibbons in news from the recent physical anthropology meeting.
By Science News - Space
NASA pulls out of astrophysics missions
Europe is now on its own for two planned spacecraft to study black holes and gravitational waves.
By Ron Cowen - Humans
Possibly pivotal human ancestor debated
An ancient species that may have sparked the rise of humankind gets a new appraisal.
By Bruce Bower - Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
A quantum state is teleported, plus twisty light and foamy graphene in this week's news.
By Science News - Earth
Earth/Environment
Breakfast may help get the lead out, plus burrowing trilobites and warmer truffles in this week's news
By Science News - Life
Complex life hit freshwater early
Tiny fossils in Scottish rock show that cells with nuclei had spread beyond the seas by a billion years ago.
By Susan Milius - Earth
Seismologists rumble over quake clusters
Japan tremor may be part of a second grouping of great quakes since 1900, some scientists say.
- Life
Gone fishing, orangutan-style
Apes that catch fish in ponds and eat them raise the possibility that ancient hominids did the same.
By Bruce Bower - Physics
Time travel nixed in metamaterial world
A desktop universe captures essential properties of the real thing.
By Devin Powell - Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
A hidden herpes risk, the rapid effects of a high-fat diet, explaining seniors' early rising and more in this week's news.
By Science News