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Study authors say the teeth, dated around 780,000 years old, push back the date humans are known to have engaged in cooking by more than 600,000 years. 

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Cretaceous Meteor That Killed Most Life on Earth Hit in Spring

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African, Arabian Mammals Didn’t Escape Grande Coupure Extinction

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Paleontologists Find Possible Dinosaur DNA

Microbial Fossils Found in 3.4-Billion-Year-Old Subseafloor Rock

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45,000-Year-Old Human Remains Found in Bulgarian Cave

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Prolonged GLP-1 Exposure Remodels Gene Expression in the Pancreas by Flipping a Molecular Switch

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Editors Mass Resign from Elsevier Journal After Editor-in-Chief Let Go

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Cockroach Milk Proteins Churn Out an Ig Nobel Win

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Multiplex Microscopy Becomes Easier with Encoded Antibodies

A new system that enables researchers to uniquely tag monoclonal antibodies for use in microscopy could help simplify complex imaging studies.

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