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Daily briefing: Ancient ground squirrels ate like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’

Evidence from fossilized poo reveals the diverse diet of ancient ground squirrels. Plus, the science behind the peptide craze and our innate tendency to wander anticlockwise.

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Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insight into deep-ocean biodiversity and whale evolutionary history.

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Humans outperform AI at this highly rigorous mathematics test

Bones of Iron Age skeleton were whittled into tools

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A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

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The latest benefit of obesity drugs: boosting testosterone and sperm quality

‘Every box has been opened’: London botanic gardens digitizes 7 million specimens

At-home brain implant gives man with motor neuron disease his daily life back

Why we seek to fly: Books in brief

I advise the Vatican and the UN on AI — don’t dismiss the Pope’s message as theology

Humans outperform AI at this highly rigorous mathematics test

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Hybrid refinery process turns plant material into industrially important chemical

Confirmation that bryozoan animals were present during the Cambrian explosion

Mitochondria tethered to the nucleus secure its energy supply

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