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  3. Trilobites

    These Wolves Like a Little Treat: Flower Nectar

    After Ethiopian wolves feed on their favorite rodents, they may be enjoying a bit of dessert and in the process helping pollinate plants known as torch lilies.

     By Elizabeth Anne Brown

    CreditAdrien Lesaffre

  4. On the Wings of War

    Scientists study the flight of hummingbirds to design robots for drone warfare.

     By Jim Robbins

    CreditTimo Lenzen

  1. Squirting Cucumbers Shoot Their Seeds Like Botanical Bombardiers

    Scientists say they’ve worked out how the plant can fire its seeds up to almost 40 feet.

     By Carolyn Wilke

    CreditDominic Vella
    Trilobites

  2. ‘DNA Typewriters’ Can Record a Cell’s History

    Labs around the world are trying to turn cells into autobiographers, tracking their own development from embryos to adults.

     By Carl Zimmer

    Dividing cells in a fertilized human egg. Researchers are engineering cells so that they can add distinctive bits of genetic material into their DNA so that as cells divide, each lineage builds up its own distinctive bar codes.
    CreditPetit Format/Science Source
    Origins

  3. Vast Oceans of Water May Be Hiding Within Uranus and Neptune

    A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange magnetic field.

     By Jonathan O’Callaghan

    An exploded view of an ice giant planet such as Uranus or Neptune, with its hidden water-rich layer (blue) that has separated from a deeper layer of hot, high-pressure carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen (amber).
    CreditQuanta Magazine

  4. Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru’s Desert

    With drones and A.I., researchers managed to double the number of mysterious geoglyphs in a matter of months.

     By Franz Lidz

    CreditThe Yamagata University Institute of Nasca

  5. An Asteroid’s Destruction May Have Given Mars Rings, Then Moons

    Scientists simulated a situation that may offer an improved explanation for how the Red Planet ended up with small Phobos and tiny Deimos.

     By Robin George Andrews

    CreditJacob Kegerreis, et al./NASA Ames

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Origins

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  1. How Early Humans Evolved to Eat Starch

    Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch.

     By Carl Zimmer

    Early humans, such as this 430,000-year-old individual from Spain, may have evolved to have extra genes for breaking down starch after they started cooking tubers for food.
    CreditJavier Trueba/MSF/Science Source

  2. When Two Sea Aliens Become One

    Primitive animals called comb jellies can fuse their bodies and nervous systems together.

     By Carl Zimmer

    CreditMariana Rodriguez-Santiago

  3. Why Do Apes Make Gestures?

    Chimps and other apes have been observed making more than 80 meaningful gestures. Three theories have tried to explain why.

     By Carl Zimmer

    A chimpanzee in Uganda presents his back to another as a request for grooming.
    CreditCat Hobaiter

  4. Our Bigger Brains Came With a Downside: Faster Aging

    A study comparing chimpanzee and human brains suggests that the regions that grew the most during human evolution are the most susceptible to aging.

     By Carl Zimmer

    The darker green regions of the brain show the parts that have expanded the most during human evolution. A new study shows that they are the same sections that shrink the most during aging.
    CreditVickery et al., Science Advances, 2024

  5. How Did the First Cells Arise? With a Little Rain, Study Finds.

    Researchers stumbled upon an ingredient that can stabilize droplets of genetic material: water.

     By Carl Zimmer

    Droplets containing RNA float in water. Each color is produced by a different kind of RNA.
    CreditAman Agrawal

Trilobites

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  1. From Chimpan-A to Chimpanzee, These Apes May Have Humanlike Culture

    Researchers describe a link between genetic relatedness and sophisticated tool use in primates in East and Central Africa, suggesting their culture is cumulative.

     By Sofia Quaglia

    Joya, a one-year-old chimpanzee, watched as her mother, Jire, used a stone hammer and stone anvil to crack nuts.
    CreditTetsuro Matsuzawa

  2. A Mummified Saber-Toothed Kitten Emerges in Siberia

    The Homotherium cub was preserved in Siberian permafrost with its dark fur and flesh intact.

     By Asher Elbein

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    CreditA.V. Lopatin et al., Scientific Reports 2024

  3. The Surprising Social Lives of Pythons

    Ball pythons were long assumed to be solitary, but scientists discovered the snakes in captivity prefer each others’ company when given the chance to live socially.

     By Asher Elbein

    CreditNoam Miller and Morgan Skinner/Wilfrid Laurier University

  4. ‘Devious’ New Deep Sea Creature Hid Its Identity From Scientists

    It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was actually a sea slug.

     By William J. Broad

    The mysterious creature, now named Bathydevius caudactylus, was observed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s remotely operated vehicle Tiburon in the outer Monterey Canyon off California at a depth of approximately 1,550 meters.
    CreditMBARI

  5. This ‘Ghost’ Fish Seemed Extinct, Until It Turned Up in Unexpected Places

    No one saw a Mekong giant salmon carp for 15 years, but then the species was spotted in areas of Cambodia that suggest it may be found in more locations.

     By Rachel Nuwer

    The elusive giant salmon carp, nicknamed the Mekong ghost, was spotted in different parts of Cambodia from 2020 to 2023.
    CreditPhoto courtesy of Chhut Chheana, USAID Wonders of the Mekong

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Climate and Environment

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  1. Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds

    Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment.”

     By Hiroko Tabuchi

    CreditAric Crabb/Digital First Media, via Getty Images

  2. Maine Becomes the Latest State to Sue Oil Companies Over Climate Change

    In a new lawsuit, the state’s attorney general claims oil companies deceived the public about fossil fuel products’ contributions to climate change.

     By Karen Zraick

    An oil and chemical tanker offloading its cargo next to an idle natural gas power plant in Bucksport, Maine.
    CreditTristan Spinski for The New York Times

  3. Saudi Arabia and Russia to U.N.: Don’t Talk About a Fossil Fuel Exit

    A handful of oil-producing nations ensured that a United Nations General Assembly resolution on climate change steered clear of a call to transition away from fossil fuels.

     By Somini Sengupta

    Sultan al-Jaber, the president of the COP28 summit in Dubai last year, center, with other officials. The Dubai summit yielded a resolution that for the first time called for decarbonizing the world’s energy system.
    CreditPeter Dejong/Associated Press

  4. Newsom Challenges Trump on Electric Vehicle Tax Credits

    Gov. Gavin Newsom said California would fill the void for residents if the Trump administration killed a $7,500 E.V. tax credit.

     By Lisa FriedmanSoumya Karlamangla and Shawn Hubler

    Gov. Gavin Newsom said that if Donald Trump eliminated the credit, he would propose restarting a rebate program that California had for zero-emissions vehicles from 2010 to 2023.
    CreditKenny Holston/The New York Times

  5. The Quest to Build a Star on Earth

    Start-ups say we’re closer than ever to near-limitless, zero-carbon energy from fusion. When will we get there?

     By Raymond Zhong

    CreditPrinceton Plasma Physics Laboratory
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