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  1. Animals

    How frigid lizards falling from trees revealed the reptiles’ growing cold tolerance

    Some Florida lizards’ ability to handle temperatures down to 5.5° C may provide clues to how they might deal with the extremes of climate change.

    By Charles Q. Choi
  2. Health & Medicine

    How two immune system chemicals may trigger COVID-19’s deadly cytokine storms

    A study in mice hints at drugs that could be helpful in treating severe coronavirus infections.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Anthropology

    These human nerve cell tendrils turned to glass nearly 2,000 years ago

    Part of a young man’s brain was preserved in A.D. 79 by hot ash from Mount Vesuvius’ eruption.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Anthropology

    The first Denisovan DNA outside Siberia unveils a long stint on the roof of the world

    Genetic evidence puts Denisovans, humankind’s now-extinct cousins, on the Tibetan Plateau from 100,000 to at least 60,000 years ago.