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Killer whales, grandmas and what men want: Evolutionary biologists consider menopause
Menopause seems like a cruel prank that Mother Nature plays on women. First come the hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, irregular periods, irritability and weight gain. Then menstruation stops and fertility ends. Why, many women ask, must they suffer through this? Evolutionary biologists, it turns out, ask themselves more or less the same question. […]
- Animals
Music without Borders
When birds trill and whales woo-oo, we call it singing. Are we serious?
- Health & Medicine
Loosen Up
Bacterial toxin may lead to less painful treatments for diabetes and brain cancer.
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Cries and Greetings
Baboon intimacy and detachment present vexing clues.
- Agriculture
Downtown Fisheries?
Advances may make fish farming a healthy prospect, even for inner cities.
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Human, Mouse, Rat . . . What’s Next?
Scientists lobby for a chimpanzee genome project.
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- Anthropology
Out on a Limb
The science of body development may make kindling out of evolutionary trees.
- Materials Science
Making Stuff Last
Chemistry and materials science step up to preserve history, old and new.
- Humans
Science News of the Year 2000
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2000.
