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  1. Health & Medicine

    This tick may play a part in gumming up your arteries

    Having antibodies to a sugar tied to red-meat allergy is associated with more plaque in the artery walls, a small study shows.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Anthropology

    Conflict reigns over the history and origins of money

    Thousands of years ago, money took different forms as a means of debt payment, archaeologists and anthropologists say.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Anthropology

    How an ancient stone money system works like cryptocurrency

    Money has ancient and mysterious pedigrees that go way beyond coins.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Microbes

    How a slime mold near death packs bacteria to feed the next generation

    Social amoebas that farm bacteria for food use proteins to preserve the crop for their offspring.