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8,274 results for: Fish
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Venom hunters
Scientists probe toxins, revealing the healing powers of biochemical weapons.
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Smart from the start
Animal embryos get some respect for their survival skills.
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Pearls Unstrung
For a while, the Great Lakes weren’t connected by rivers and Niagara Falls was just a trickle.
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Broken Symmetry
Scientists seek mechanisms explaining development of the body’s left-right pattern.
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Enter the Virosphere
As evidence of the influence of viruses escalates, appreciation of these master manipulators grows.
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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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All kinds of tired
Donkeys sleep about three out of each 24 hours. Certain reef fish spend the night moving their fins as if swimming in their sleep. Some biologists argue that all animals sleep in some form or another. But identifying sleep can get complicated. Insects have brain architecture so different from humans’, for example, that electrophysiological recordings […]
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As the worms churn
Burrowing animals mix soil and sediments, shaping the environment and scientists’ understanding of it.
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Botanical Whales
Adventures in the Tortugas reveal that seagrass fields need saving too.
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Trawling the brain
New findings raise questions about reliability of fMRI as gauge of neural activity.
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Humans wonder, anybody home?
Brain structure and circuitry offer clues to consciousness in nonmammals.
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2009 Science News of the Year: Life
Breeding records for sheep on Hirta offer an unusual opportunity to study inheritance. Image Credit: Arpat Ozgul Gentler winters shrink sheepWarming has trumped the benefits of fat to shrink sheep on the remote North Atlantic island of Hirta, a new analytical approach has revealed (SN: 8/1/09, p. 12). Weights for wild female Soay sheep dropped […]
