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- Science & Society
A modest proposal for federal science spending
President’s proposed FY 2011 budget outlines 5.9 percent increase in nondefense-related research and development funding.
By Science News -
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 […]
By Susan Milius - Ecosystems
Google works on a different web
Page ranking system inspires algorithm for predicting food webs’ vulnerability.
By Susan Milius -
- Earth
Fossil of a walking seal found
A fossil skeleton discovered in the Canadian Arctic could represent a missing link in pinniped evolution.
- Health & Medicine
Genome 10K: A new ark
Featured blog: Researchers are working to catalog the DNA sequences of just about every vertebrate genus.
By Janet Raloff -
- Animals
SOS: Call the ants
Emergency ant workers bite at snares, dig and tug to free trapped sisters
By Susan Milius - Life
It’s not their dirty mouths
Komodo dragons kill prey with venom, not oral bacteria, study suggests.
- Humans
America’s worst oil disaster still isn’t over
Impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill linger.
By Janet Raloff -
Dressing up dinos
Adding soft tissue to bone helps scientists, paleoartists bring ancient creatures to life.
By Sid Perkins - Ecosystems
Exxon Valdez killed future for some killer whales
An Alaskan oil spill disrupted family structure in killer-whale groups, with lasting and dramatic repercussions.
By Janet Raloff