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- Life
Albatross forage with fractal-like flight
New data offer support for a modified mathematical pattern in birds’ hunting behavior.
By Devin Powell - Earth
Defying Depth
How deep-sea creatures, and close relatives, survive tons of water weight.
By Susan Gaidos - Life
Sawfish don’t saw
Spiked snouts whack prey to the bottom, helping the predator better get its mouth around dinner.
By Susan Milius - Life
Life
A fossil flower from one of life’s early bloomers, plus monkey business and shark cleanings in this week’s news.
By Science News - Animals
Epidemic of skin lesions reported in reef fish
A British-Australian research team has just found coral trout living on the south side of the Great Barrier Reef sporting dark skin raised, scablike, brown-black growths. Although the authors believe they’ve stumbled onto an epidemic of melanoma — a type of skin cancer — other experts have their doubts. Strong ones.
By Janet Raloff -
Science Future for June 4, 2011
June 27 Go behind the scenes of Houston’s Cockrell Butterfly Center. Go to https://store.hmns.org July 15–17 Swim with the world’s largest fish at the fourth annual Whale Shark Festival in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. More information at www.whalesharkfest.com
By Science News -
- Life
Life
Ultrasonic ribbits, saving dead trees and fishy retribution in this week’s news.
By Science News -
- Humans
Big fish return to Mexican marine park
Most effects of overharvesting reversed within a decade.
By Janet Raloff - Math
Cells take on traveling salesman problem
With neither minds nor maps- chemical-sensing immune players do well with decades-old mathematical problem, a computer simulation reveals.
- Humans
Nobelists advise budding scientists
Laureates share unconventional wisdom with young investigators at Intel ISEF 2011.