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Learn how industrial poultry farming drove a 100-fold increase in Campylobacter transfers and helped strains acquire traits linked to drug resistance.
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Learn how Musango, a new Late Triassic dinosaur from Zimbabwe, survived a possible injury or infection and challenges ideas about southern African ecosystems.
Learn how river otters at Point Reyes turned brown pelicans into recurring prey and why the birds may finally be responding.
Learn what buried bones reveal about the diet of ancient cultures in Italy, shedding light on mobility, gender inequality, and social status.
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Learn how fin-ray counts, scale patterns, and DNA identified Tomiyamichthys oriens, a new shrimpgoby species from East Java, Indonesia.
Learn how falling vaccination rates are causing preventable diseases, like measles, to return.
Learn more about an ancient coin from Cyprus that was recently uncovered on Ashdod Beach and what it could help reveal about trade in the 5th century.
Learn how competing electronic states can be manipulated in cerium tritelluride, a graphene-like quantum material.
Learn about shipwrecks that have begun to emerge on the Danube River, revealing the impacts of drought in Central Europe.