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Top news stories 1. A special brew may have calmed Inca children headed for sacrifice
The mummified remains of two Inca children ritually sacrificed more than 500 years ago contain chemical clues to their final days and weeks. On the journey to the Peruvian mountain where they were sacrificed, the children may have chewed coca leaves and drunk a beverage with antidepressant-like ingredients to soothe their nerves (SN: 6/4/22, p. 10).
2. A ‘mystery monkey’ in Borneo may be a rare hybrid. That has
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