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  1. Anthropology

    Butchered bird bones put humans in Madagascar 10,500 years ago

    Humans reached the island near Africa 6,000 years earlier than thought, raising questions about how its megafauna went extinct.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Chemistry

    A new antibiotic uses sneaky tactics to kill drug-resistant superbugs

    Scientists have developed a molecule that kills off bacteria that are resistant to existing antibiotics.

    By Laurel Hamers
  3. Archaeology

    This South African cave stone may bear the world’s oldest drawing

    The Stone Age line design could have held special meaning for its makers, a new study finds.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Materials Science

    Here’s how graphene could make future electronics superfast

    Graphene-based electronics that operate at terahertz frequencies would be much speedier successors to today’s silicon-based devices.