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Apes Point to Origins of Human LanguageHumans might have been signing long before they were speaking.
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Meet Your New Cousins, the Flying LemursThe strange-looking creatures glide using a skin-fold like flying squirrels.
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Newfound Sea Anemones Really Get AroundNew species found off the Aleutian Islands.
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Good Night's Sleep Key to Strong MemoriesNew research supports sleep's key role in memory formation.
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New Ancient Ape Species DiscoveredScientists debate whether it is proof our ancestors evolved only in Africa.
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Clever Trick Lets Snakes Eat Toxic PreyA foolproof plan allows the Australian death adder to eat poisonous frogs.
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How Ventriloquists Fool the BrainA brain region that responds to sight and sound together could hold the key.
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Key Found to Making Robots Human-FriendlyChildren accepted a touch-sensitive robot as one of them.
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Meet Your New Cousins, the Flying LemursThe strange-looking creatures glide using a skin-fold like flying squirrels.
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Brain Cells Colored To Create 'Brainbow'The new technique causes neurons to glow in 90 distinct colors.
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First Land Creatures Saw in Vivid Color
The first fish that climbed onto land could likely see in color.
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Power Outage Shuts Down Government Agency
Workers at the National Science Foundation have been sent home for the day.
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Something Very Fishy Revealed about Human Fingers
The gene that makes our hands and feet also make fish fins.
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Genetic Ancestry Tests Mostly Hype, Scientists SaySuch "vanity tests" rely on misconceptions about race and genetics.
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The Incredible Shrinking RadioIt's thinner than a human hair and can covert radio waves into sound.
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Prehistoric Humans Hit the Beach During Cold SpellShellfish, pigments, and stone tools were found in an African coastal cave.
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Strong-Jawed Dino Likened to Arnold SchwarzeneggerIt's been dubbed the "Arnold Schwarzenegger" of dinosaurs.
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Woolly Mammoth Hair Yields 'Fantastic' DNAHair is a better source of ancient DNA than bone or muscle, a woollymammoth study suggests.
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'Jurassic Park' Villain Had FeathersVelociraptor was turkey-sized and a new study shows it had feathers, too.
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Arctic Meltdown Opens Fabled Northwest PassageArtic ice melting is clearing a path for a trade route.
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Oldest Identifiable Footprints FoundPaleozoic Era footprints have been matched to the animals that made them.
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New Theory: How Intelligence WorksHow well information travels through the brain could determine intelligence.
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New System Helps Airliners Avoid TurbulenceThe system could help put an end to stomach-lurching bumps during flight.
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Newfound Species Pushes Back Human-Ape Splithe gorilla-like creature lived 10 million years ago in Africa.
