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2,562 results for: Cats

  1. Life

    Carnivores can lose sweet genes

    A gene involved in taste detection has glitches in some, but not all, highly carnivorous mammals.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    Jolt to brain aids language recovery

    Stroke patients treated with brain stimulation show improvement in language skills.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Space

    Crowd sourcing comes to astronomy

    Researchers comb the Internet for snapshots of a comet and use the collected images to calculate its orbit.

    By Nadia Drake
  4. Life

    How the elephant gets its infrasound

    Just blowing air through a pachyderm’s larynx produces fundamental elements of the mysterious rumblings that send messages too low for people to hear.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Paleontology

    Just a quick bite

    Saber-toothed cats living in North America around 10,000 years ago had a much weaker bite than modern big cats.

    By Sarah Williams

  6. Spying Vision Cells: Eye’s motion detectors are finally found

    Primates, like other mammals, possess specialized retinal cells that detect motion.

    By Patrick Barry

  7. Sickness and Schizophrenia: Psychotic ills tied to previous infections

    Two new studies provide evidence for the longstanding suspicion that certain viral infections early in life promote the development of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.

    By Bruce Bower

  8. On Top of Words: Spatial language spurs kids’ reasoning skills

    Recent studies of spatial reasoning in deaf children support the notion that language helps people encode certain concepts and suggest that using spatial language with children may boost overall reasoning skills.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg

  9. New drugs tackle difficult nematodes

    Researchers have discovered what could be a new class of drugs for treating animals afflicted with nematodes.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Health & Medicine

    Let there be light

    Researchers report restoring vision to people with a rare, genetic form of blindness. A different technique helped blind mice see again and could bring back some sight in people with macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa or other blinding diseases.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Space

    Neutron tie-dye

    Neutrons can produce 3-D scans of a magnetic field, even inside a solid.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  12. Paleontology

    Ancient burrows

    Triassic-era sediments unearthed in Antarctica reveal the well-preserved lair of a four-legged, mammal-like reptile.

    By Tia Ghose