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2,562 results for: Cats
- Animals
When Ants Squeak
In the past 20 years, researchers studying sound communication in ants have discovered a sort of ant-ernet, zinging with messages about lost relatives, great food, free rides for hitchhikers, caterpillars in search of ant partners, and impending doom.
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Placental Puzzle
Do captured viral genes make human pregnancies possible?
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Silence of the Xs
Does junk DNA help women muffle one X chromosome?
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The Lives of Pandas
On a tight energy budget, newborns no bigger than chipmunks grow into roly-poly superstars.
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A Fly Called Iyaiyai
All that Latin has its light side.
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Faces of Perception
Scientists who study face perception currently disagree strongly over whether newborn babies innately know what human faces look like and whether certain brain areas are solely responsible for distinguishing one face from another.
- Animals
Social Cats
Who says cats aren't social? And other musings from scientists who study cats in groups.
- Computing
Sneaky Calculations
The same communication system that brings you the Web page of your choice can be exploited to perform computations.
- Ecosystems
Deprived of Darkness
From anecdotal reports of little-studied phenomena, researchers suspect that artificial night lighting disrupts the physiology and behavior of nocturnal animals.
