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Iron Age Copper Reveals Earth’s Stronger, Faster Magnetic Field | Wired Science

<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45133" title="thinkerstats" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/12/thinkerstats.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="416" /> Google’s massive trove of scanned books could be useful for researchers studying the evolution of culture.

Cultural Evolution Could Be Studied in Google Books Database | Wired Science

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Missing Black Holes Cause Trouble for String Theory | Wired Science

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-45186" title="compact-muon-solenoid-cms-detector-cern" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/12/compact-muon-solenoid-cms-detector-cern.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="440" /> By John Timmer, Ars Technica

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One-Fourth of DNA Born by 2.8 Billion Years Ago | Wired Science

Borrowing biological designs from the black ghost knifefish, engineers have built a swimming robot that reveals how the animal’s trick of vertical movement works.

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Black Ghost Knifefish Robot Unmasks Movement Secrets | Wired Science

Rare Cambodian Elephant Captured on Video | Wired Science

A rare Cambodian elephant has finally been caught on video. The footage was taken in August by photographer Allan Michaud for the Wildlife Conservation Society, who say it’s the first high-quality video of an Asian elephant in Cambodia. Michaud filmed the adult male in the Seima Forest , a Rhode Island–sized sanctuary along the country’s border with Vietnam.

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The Weirdest Indicators of Serious Medical Risks | Wired Science

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Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2010 | Wired Science

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Climate Models Miss Effects of Wind-Shattered Dust | Wired Science

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Lost Civilization Seen in Zapotec Thighbones | Wired Science

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46288" title="tobacco-hormworm-flickr-cbede" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/01/tobacco-hormworm-flickr-cbede.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="491" /> Plants and microbes can absorb nano-sized synthetic particles that magnify in concentration within predators up the food chain, according to two new studies.

Nanoparticles in Sewage Sludge May End Up in the Food Chain | Wired Science

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46394" title="clubbed-ibis-wing-fight-nicholas-longrich" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/01/clubbed-ibis-wing-fight-nicholas-longrich.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="735" /> By Mark Brown, Wired UK

Ancient Birds Clobbered Rivals With Clubbed Wings | Wired Science

Toxic Oceans May Have Poisoned Early Animals | Wired Science

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46456" title="cambrian-ocean-500-million-years-wiki-ron-blakey" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/01/cambrian-ocean-500-million-years-wiki-ron-blakey.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="330" /> Soon after complex animals made their first great strides onto the stage of life, the oceans brewed up a toxic chemical mix that put the brakes on evolutionary innovation, suggests a paper in the Jan. 6 Nature .

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46676" title="lake-vostok-antarctica-nasa-gsfc" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/01/lake-vostok-antarctica-nasa-gsfc.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="554" /> By Duncan Geere, Wired UK