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Ew! Bad teeth
reveal what ancients ate
Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru. FULL STORY
Tom Dillehay / Vanderbilt
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Happy holiday from space

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Are you looking for out-of-this-world greeting cards for the holidays? The folks behind NASA's Great Observatories have just the thing.

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