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- Life
Pterosaurs might have soared 10,000 miles nonstop
Flight analysis suggests ancient reptiles were record setters.
- Health & Medicine
Mice robbed of darkness fatten up
Time of day can affect calories' impact, a study shows.
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- Health & Medicine
How being deaf can enhance sight
Hearing-specialized brain regions can adapt to processing visual input, cat experiments show.
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The Science of Slumber
Special issue on sleep.
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The Why of Sleep
Brain studies may reveal the purpose of a behavior both basic and mystifying.
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Sleep Gone Awry
Researchers inch closer to causes, cures for insomnia, narcolepsy.
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Dying to Sleep
Getting too little sleep can impair body and brain and could even be deadly.
- Science & Society
2010 Nobels recognize potential of basic science to shape the world
Prizes go to IVF, graphene and ‘carbon chemistry at its best’
- Life
One small step for a snail, one giant leap for snailkind
Experiments suggest that gastropods shed their shells in one fell swoop during the evolutionary transition that created slugs.
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Cosmic dioramas
Metamaterials may offer windows into other worlds.
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