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[:eu]Long Before Making Enigmatic Earthworks, People Reshaped Brazil’s Rain Forest[:]

Deep in the Amazon, the rain forest once covered ancient secrets. Spread across hundreds of thousands of acres are massive, geometric earthworks. The carvings stretch out in circles and squares […]
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[:eu]Saiga Antelopes Are Struck Again by a Plague in Central Asia[:]

An ancient species that once roamed grasslands with woolly mammoths is dying in great numbers in Mongolia, with harmful factors piling up.
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[:eu]In the Indian Ocean, Fragments of a Continent Where They Should Not Be[:]

It’s true that geologists have found something strange under the island of Mauritius. They’re calling it “Mauritia.” But it’s not a continent like Africa, for example. As Lewis D. Ashwal, […]
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[:eu]In Many Species, a Family Dinner Means Something Else[:]

After their first molt, black lace-weaver spiderlings are too large for their mother to care for, though they are in dire need of additional food. In a sacrificial act of […]
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[:eu]What Did Neanderthals Leave to Modern Humans? Some Surprises[:]

Genes inherited from Neanderthals may have made some modern humans heartier, but also more prone to depression and other diseases.
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[:eu]Some Dinosaur Eggs Took Six Months or More to Hatch[:]

Scientists reported on Monday that by using a new technique on exceedingly rare fossils of unhatched dinosaur embryos, they determined that those embryos took twice as long to hatch as […]
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[:eu]The Biggest Digital Map of the Cosmos Ever Made[:]

The Pan-Starrs telescope on the island of Maui released an astronomical survey that includes two petabytes of data, roughly equivalent to a billion selfies.
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[:eu]Vera Rubin, 88, Dies; Opened Doors in Astronomy, and for Women[:]

Vera Rubin, who transformed modern physics and astronomy with her observations showing that galaxies and stars are immersed in the gravitational grip of vast clouds of dark matter, died on […]
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[:eu]Cold Tolerance Among Inuit May Come From Extinct Human Relatives[:]

A new study, published on Wednesday in Molecular Biology and Evolution, identifies gene variants in Inuit who live in Greenland, which may help them adapt to the cold by promoting […]