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Moody tunes
To explore the effect that music has on the mind, Science News asked researchers to share a song they enjoy and the emotion it evokes. Ethan Ross, physicianSong: “Dark Star” by the Grateful Dead Emotion: “Elation, euphoria and wonder.” Virginia Naples, vertebrate paleontologist Song: “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot Emotion: “Sadness […]
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Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Paleontologists probe the majestic reptiles’ origin and rise.
- Ecosystems
Famine reveals incredible shrinking iguanas
Marine iguanas in the Galápagos Islands are the first vertebrates known to reduce their size during a food shortage and then regrow to their original body lengths.
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Blood cues sex choice for parasites
Malaria parasites shift their female-biased production of offspring toward a more evenly balanced sex ratio as an infection proceeds.
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For geneticists, interference becomes an asset
A new method of disrupting genes, called RNA interference, works in mouse cells.
- Paleontology
All mixed up over birds and dinosaurs
A bit of fossil fakery snookered a team of paleontologists
- Animals
Music without Borders
When birds trill and whales woo-oo, we call it singing. Are we serious?
- Agriculture
Downtown Fisheries?
Advances may make fish farming a healthy prospect, even for inner cities.
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What’s Worth Saving?
A fracas over a biological term could have huge consequences for conservation.
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Do Antibodies Pack a Deadly Punch?
These immune molecules may directly kill, not just tag, microbes.
- Anthropology
Out on a Limb
The science of body development may make kindling out of evolutionary trees.
- Plants
Botany under the Mistletoe
Twisters, spitters, and other flowery thoughts for romantic moments.
