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News at a glance: Beijing’s vaccine flip, EU energy flap, and Marburg virus in West Africa

[ad_1] PALEONTOLOGY Dino’s puny arms resemble T. rex ’s For dinosaurs, tiny arms may have been the price of a giant, carnivorous head , according to a study of a new species. In Argentina’s Patagonian Desert, paleontologists discovered a halfcomplete, 11-meter-long skeleton that’s a Tyrannosaurus rex doppelgänger, with stubby arms and a cartoonishly big cranium, […]

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Contrary to popular belief, woodpeckers don’t protect their brains when headbanging trees

[ad_1] There are plenty of reasons to bang your head against a wall these days. But if you do, maybe don’t look to the woodpecker for inspiration. Scientists have long hypothesized that a spongy bone in the woodpecker’s skull cushions its repeated head slams like a well-designed safety helmet. (Indeed, engineers have modeled football helmets

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