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Anadenanthera colubrina is the one tree species common to nearly all regions of South American seasonally dry tropical forests and woodlands (SDTFs). Its abundant fruits each of which is laterally flat and which bear many lenticular seeds, trunk and main stems with a tuberculate cortex, and extra floral nectaries positioned near the base of the leaf rachis distinguish this species.

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Ancient Andean leaders may have mixed hallucinogen with their beer

A concoction of vilca seeds and fermented alcohol may have provided a mild hallucinogenic experience, enabling Wari leaders in South America to bond with their people

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Watch as a pig heart is transplanted into a human for the first time

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Watch the best ever simulation of stars being born in a cosmic cloud

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simulation of star formation

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Watch the best ever simulation of stars being born in a cosmic cloud

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SK Hynix HY5DU281622ET CMOS DDR DRAM chip on circuit board

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Overloaded memory chips generate truly random numbers for encryption

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Pig heart is prepared for transplant

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How a pig heart was transplanted into a human for the first time

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Mimas

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Saturn鈥檚 small moon Mimas may be hiding an impossible ocean

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Humans

A West African writing system shows how letters evolve to get simpler

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percussion notches on large bovid humerus

Humans

Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

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Black hole

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Two black holes merged to form a huge one moving at incredible speeds

Astronomers have long suspected that merging black holes can give the resulting larger black hole a massive boost of speed, and have finally spotted this happening

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Life

Fungi that live on eucalyptus roots can control trees’ gene activity

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Technology

Meet Rollin’ Justin, the future of humanoid exploration on Mars

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Health

Corkscrew-shaped robot swims through blood vessels to clear blockages

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What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitoris

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