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Discover what sets human culture apart from animals, as evolutionary insights challenge old beliefs and reveal our unique ...

Microbes unable to break down carbohydrates belong to a newly identified family of marine bacteria. A German-American ...

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Get ready to explore one of Africa's most notorious insects: the tsetse fly. These tiny flies may not look like much, but they play a major role in spreading sleeping sickness, aka human African ...

An international team of researchers have developed a promising new drug that could help combat the spread of ...

You might think of snails as the little shelled creatures that you find crawling in your garden, or even as a delicacy of French cuisine, where they are called "escargot." But there are snails that ...