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    Can Sugar Make You Stupid?

    Bingeing on fructose stunted memory and learning in rats, prompting "high concern" over unhealthy humans.

  • A fossilized ink sac.

    Fossil Ink Sacs Yield Pigment

    Still soft ink sacs from 160-million-year-old squidlike animals have yielded pigment matching that of modern cuttlefish.

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    How to Build a Dog

    Scientists have found the secret recipe behind the spectacular variety of dog shapes and sizes, and it could help unravel the complexity of human genetic disease.

  • Photo: Bloodhound, German shorthaired pointer, and Sussex spaniel

    Dog DNA Photo Gallery

    Scientists have found the secret recipe behind the spectacular variety of dog shapes and sizes, and it could help unravel the complexity of human genetic disease.