Life

  1. Animals

    BOOK LIST | Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human

    The story of a chimp being raised by humans —and washing the dishes (p.130). NIM CHIMPSKY: THE CHIMP WHO WOULD BE HUMAN Bantam Books, 2008, 269 p., $23.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Tame-walk potion

    A one-two sting and a cockroach lets a wasp lead it like a dog on a leash.

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  3. Chemistry

    Life before proteins

    Spheres of fat suggest a way that life on Earth could have gotten started.

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  4. Life

    Zombie babysitters

    Wasp attack creates undead caterpillars that protect wasp young

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  5. Life

    Replaying evolution

    By watching bacteria evolve in the lab for 20 years, researchers show that evolution may be rather capricious.

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  6. Life

    Tracing human roots

    Using a new method of data analysis, researchers have found that the Americas were peopled in two different migrations.

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  7. Animals

    Not so prudish after all

    Unsuspected genetic diversity found in asexual animals.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Monkey think, robotic monkey arm do

    In a step toward someday making brain-controlled prosthetic arms for people, scientists have trained monkeys to control a robotic arm with their thoughts. Click on the image to read the story and see the video.

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  9. Life

    Killer bee colonization

    A NASA project will combine satellite observations of plant growth in the continental United States and projections of how climate might change in coming years to estimate where “killer bees” could ultimately survive in the wild.

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  10. Earth

    Life down deep

    Deep-sea sediments provide a habitat for diverse and abundant populations of microorganisms and may be home to as much as 70 percent of the bacteria on the planet, new studies suggest.

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  11. Paleontology

    Walking tall

    Some types of the largest flying reptiles ever known were well adapted to life on the ground.

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  12. Life

    Two-mommy bird nests

    Researchers have found an unexpected number of two-female nests in Oahu’s bird colony.

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