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4,004 results for: Dogs
- Life
Fasting hormone helps mice live longer
A protein can trick the body into entering starvation mode.
- Space
California meteorite a scientific gold mine
Sutter’s Mill rock preserves rare, fresh material from outer space.
- Life
Starchy diet may have transformed wolves to dogs
Gaining the ability to digest carbohydrates may have been an important step in domesticating dogs.
- Life
Genes indicate Stone Age link between India and Australia
Genetic evidence suggests some people migrated from India to Australia roughly 4,300 years ago.
- Life
Tasmanian devil disease reveals its secrets
The contagious cancer evades the animal’s immune system by turning off key genes.
- Humans
Cannibalism in Colonial America comes to life
Researchers have found the first skeletal evidence that starving colonists ate their own.
- Animals
Tamed fox shows domestication’s effects on the brain
Gene activity changes accompany doglike behavior in foxes bred over more than 50 years.
- Psychology
Dog sniffs out grammar
After years of word training, a canine intuitively figures out how simple sentences work.
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- Humans
Networks dominated by rule of the few
Certain systems, including social hubs like Facebook, can be directed from relatively few control points.
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- Life
Hey kitty, dogs drink like cats
High-speed video shows that canines don’t simply scoop up water, they toss it into their mouths just like their feline frenemies.
