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2,543 results for: Cats

  1. All Patterns Great and Small

    Researchers uncover the origins of creatures’ stripes and spots.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Life

    A more fearsome saber-toothed cat

    Analyses of fossils reveal that a third, newly recognized type of saber-toothed cat — one that killed by biting large chunks of flesh from its victim instead of biting its neck and slashing the major blood vessels there —roamed the Americas about a million years ago.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Anthropology

    Partial skeletons may represent new hominid

    Partial skeletons may represent a new hominid species with implications for Homo origins, one researcher claims. But many of his peers disagree.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Chemistry

    Mothballs deserve respect

    I don’t use mothballs — except sometimes to sprinkle down the burrows of animals excavating tunnels beneath the deck floor of my pergola. It’s the most effective stop-work order for wildlife that I’ve found. But I won’t use these stinky crystals inside my home because they scare me. And those fears appear justified, according to Linda Hall of the California Environmental Protection Agency.

    By Janet Raloff
  5. Humans

    Water, water everywhere

    Sid Perkins uncovers the amazing amount of “hidden water” in many consumer products.

    By Sid Perkins
  6. Anthropology

    Lucy fossil gets jolted upright by Big Man

    Scientists have unearthed a 3.6-million-year-old partial hominid skeleton that may recast the iconic species as humanlike walkers.

    By Bruce Bower
  7. Life

    Do-it-yourself bed-bug detector

    With bed-bug numbers on the rise in North America, researchers test homemade bug finders.

    By Susan Milius

  8. A Very Improbable Story by Edward Einhorn and Adam Gustavson

    A cat named Odds plays games of probability with a young boy in this children’s book. Charlesbridge, 2008, 32 p., $16.95 A Very Improbable Story by Edward Einhorn and Adam Gustavson

    By Science News
  9. Physics

    A very special snowball

    The long-predicted ice XV has been spotted in the lab.

    By Laura Sanders
  10. Life

    Molecular Evolution

    Investigating the genetic books of life reveals new details of 'descent with modification' and the forces driving it.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Health & Medicine

    Retrovirus might be culprit in chronic fatigue syndrome

    An obscure pathogen shows up often in people diagnosed with the condition, scientists find.

    By Nathan Seppa
  12. Health & Medicine

    Seemingly misplaced DNA acts as lenses

    Nocturnal animals orient DNA in retinal cells to focus light.

    By Tina Hesman Saey