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A Rutgers study of nearly 1,700 people found fathers of daughters felt more committed to their child’s mother than fathers of sons, and in couples tracked from pregnancy the gap began after birth
A UC Davis study found just three minutes with miniature horses and donkeys left 61 teenagers calmer and less lonely, and those who saw an animal choose to walk away felt the biggest drop in sadness
A Finnish study that followed 2,690 men for decades found 42% of those with good cardiovascular health in their early 40s lived to 90, versus 7% of those with the poorest, and they were less frail
Researchers sifting 8,173 insect remains from a burial cave on Gran Canaria found granary weevils revealing it first stored grain, and blowflies showing the dead were placed inside right after death
Scientists found fewer wrinkles on Mercury’s roughest ground, and now put its lost radius at 7.2 miles
Archaeologists in Romania excavated a 6,000-year-old pottery kiln with an 81-square-foot floor and replaceable clay slabs, the largest of its kind, suggesting potters worked beyond household needs
In the Southern Ocean, four 23-foot crewless sailboats will measure CO2 where ships rarely go in winter
A bear shoulder blade found in England in 1864 helped show that bear-baiting was established by the 12th century, about 400 years before Shakespeare’s London, as imports of live bears grew after 1066
A metal detectorist near Cologne stopped digging after 15 silver coins and called archaeologists, who then found 934 Roman denarii, the largest hoard from Hadrian’s time ever found in Germany
Mineral layers in the Roman aqueduct that crosses the Pont du Gard show it stopped supplying Nîmes around AD 270, during the Plague of Cyprian, while water kept flowing to farms upstream for 140 years
University of Queensland engineers made a coating that releases rust-fighting molecules where it is damaged, and lab tests showed corrosion over 600 times slower than some top paints
Archaeologists working along Mexico’s Maya Train found ray barb fragments and a catfish spine in burials near the Usumacinta River and are studying whether the Maya used them to draw their own blood
Janelia scientists spent 18 years mapping every neuron in a male fruit fly, 166,700 cells and 125 million connections, and days after the map came out programmers had it playing Doom
Archaeologists checking a building plot in Italy found a 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb where a Greek wine vessel painted with horsemen and a siren held the cremated bones of a person of high rank
Cavers in Italy’s Rieti province explored about 328 feet of a pre-Roman aqueduct carved through a hillside, and archaeologists believe small farming villages built it to drain their land
Roebuck Castle, a medieval fortress long believed demolished, is hiding inside a Victorian-looking building at University College Dublin, where walls possibly from the early 1200s survive under plaster
Archaeologists in Belgium sifted 814 molehills near Damme and recovered 2,810 fragments that revealed a medieval gatehouse under a nature reserve, with the richest clues where moles dug least









