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What Bacterial Cultures Reveal About Ours
Virginia Gewin
Dairying is one of the great puzzles of history. An archaeologist set out to unravel it and, in the process, discovered Mongolia’s hidden wealth of endangered microbes.
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Rice Reveals Enslaved Africans’ Agricultural Heritage
Virginia Gewin
Did enslaved people contribute more than solely their labor to the success of rice plantations in the New World? In pursuit of the answer, one researcher is extracting little bits of memoir trapped inside rice grains.
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