News

  1. Tech

    Nanocrystal

    Researchers have used DNA as Velcro to create the first materials that spontaneously assemble into regular 3-D patterns.

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  2. Animals

    Bird fads weaken sexual selection

    There's a new look for a hot male among lark buntings every year.

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  3. More evidence that flies sleep like people

    A brain chemical puts fruit flies to sleep.

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  4. Humans

    Wish List: FY ’09 budget proposal ups physical sciences

    President Bush's proposed 2009 federal budget would boost R&D in the physical sciences while reining in biomedical research.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Pot Downer: Marijuana users risk gum disease

    Regular marijuana smoking is linked to gum disease in young adults.

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  6. Ecosystems

    Spread of nonnative fish mirrors human commerce

    Invasions of foreign freshwater fish are more common in areas with relatively high economic activity, suggesting that humans are a part of the problem.

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  7. Animals

    Whales Drink Sounds: Hearing may use an ancient path

    Sounds can travel to a whale's ears through its throat, an acoustic pathway that might be ancient in the whale lineage.

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  8. Tots Who Tote: Babies show neural signs of budding number sense

    By three months of age, infants already display separate brain networks for detecting changes in either the number or the types of objects that they see.

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  9. Earth

    Finding Fault: Trace of old subduction zone found in Italy

    A thick layer of rocks now lying high in the mountains of Italy is the remains of a quake-generating subduction zone active under the sea millions of years ago, a discovery that provides clues about ancient seismic activity along this interface between tectonic plates and insights into what may be happening along many such subduction zones today.

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  10. Growing Up to Prozac: Drug makes new neurons mature faster

    Prozac may relieve depression by stimulating growth and maturation of neurons in some parts of the brain.

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  11. Archaeology

    Zeus’ altar drew early visitors

    Archaeologists have discovered evidence that people used a ceremonial altar to the ancient Greek god Zeus around 5,000 years ago, a millennium before Zeus worship originated.

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  12. Archaeology

    The Black Death chose its victims selectively

    An analysis of medieval skeletons in England and Denmark finds that the devastating epidemic known as the Black Death killed excess numbers of people who were physically frail to begin with.

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