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- One number can help explain why measles is so contagious
- Vaccines may help bats fight white nose syndrome
- Peruvian fossils yield a four-legged otterlike whale with hooves
- Cats recognize their own names
- Dandelion seeds create a bizarre whirlpool in the air to fly
- This new fish species displays a splash of highlighter hues
- Before it burned, Brazil’s National Museum gave much to science
- With launch looming, the Parker Solar Probe is ready for its star turn
- Ötzi loaded up on fatty food before he died
- Ebola vaccinations begin in Congo
- What we know about the Ebola outbreak, and the vaccine that might help
- See (and hear) the stunning diversity of bowhead whales’ songs
- Cicadas on different schedules can hybridize
- A new coronavirus is killing pigs in China
- The great Pacific garbage patch may be 16 times as massive as we thought
- How oral vaccines could save Ethiopian wolves from extinction
- How a vaporized Earth might have cooked up the moon
- Fossil footprints may put lizards on two feet 110 million years ago
- Robots map largest underwater volcanic eruption in 100 years
- The man flu struggle might be real, says one researcher
- Once settled, immigrants play important guard roles in mongoose packs
- Crested pigeons sound the alarm with their wings
- New dinosaur sported a curious set of chompers
- Christina Warinner uncovers ancient tales in dental plaque
- A baby ichthyosaur’s last meal revealed
- Bedbugs may be into dirty laundry
- Old barn owls aren’t hard of hearing
- The Cassini probe dies tomorrow. Here’s how to follow its end
- Why bats crash into windows
- Ancient mud documents the legacy of Rome’s lead pipes
- Here’s what the Science News family did for the eclipse
- Giant larvaceans could be ferrying ocean plastic to the seafloor
- Why midsize animals are the fastest
- What Curiosity has yet to tell us about Mars
- This robot grows like a plant
- GM moth trial gets a green light from USDA
- CRISPR adds storing movies to its feats of molecular biology
- Male cockatoos have the beat
- Facial recognition changes a wasp’s brain
- Primitive whales had mediocre hearing
- Big slimy lips are the secret to this fish’s coral diet
- Mummy DNA unveils the history of ancient Egyptian hookups
- Sea scorpions slashed victims with swordlike tails
- Petite parrots provide insight into early flight
- Higher temperatures could trigger an uptick in damselfly cannibalism
- Watch male cuttlefish fight over a female in the wild
- New pelvic exoskeleton stops people from taking tumbles
- Trackers may tip a warbler’s odds of returning to its nest
- Big dads carry weight among wandering albatrosses
- Frog slime protein fights off the flu
- Volcanic eruptions nearly snuffed out Gentoo penguin colony
- Size matters to lizards, but numbers may not
- Dog DNA study maps breeds across the world
- Mosquito flight is unlike that of any other insect
- Tool use in sea otters doesn’t run in the family
- Under lasers, a feathered dino shows some skin
- Tropical bedbugs outclimb common species
- In new Cassini portraits, Saturn’s moon Pan looks like pasta
- Ancient dental plaque tells tales of Neandertal diet and disease
- Coral reef crab named after Harry Potter characters
- How hydras know where to regrow their heads
- CRISPR used in cows to help fight tuberculosis
- Why salmonella doesn’t want you to poop out
- Bony head ornaments signal some supersized dinosaurs
- How desert ants navigate walking backward
- In some ways, hawks hunt like humans
- Narwhals are really, really good at echolocation
- Most illegal ivory is less than three years old
- Nose cells fix knee cartilage in human trial
- Berries may give yellow woodpeckers a red dye job
- African elephants walk on their tippy-toes
- Tiny structures give a peacock spider its radiant rump
- CT scans show first X-rayed mummy in new light
- SpaceX rocket explodes on Florida launchpad
- FDA bans chemicals in antibacterial soaps
- Hoverflies (probably) can’t sense gravity
- Evidence piles up for popular pesticides’ link to pollinator problems
- Female fish have a fail-safe for surprise sperm attacks
- Colugo genome reveals gliders as primate cousins
- New fossil suggests echolocation evolved early in whales
- X-rays reveal portrait hiding beneath Degas masterpiece
- Smart mice have better odds of survival
- Why a parasitic vine can’t take a bite out of tomatoes
- How Houdini tadpoles escape certain death
- Some primates prefer nectar with a bigger alcohol kick
- IVF doesn’t up long-term breast cancer risk, study says
- Insect debris fashion goes back to the Cretaceous
- Baby birds’ brains selectively respond to dads’ songs
- City living shortens great tits’ telomeres
- Lemurs sing in sync — until one tries to go solo
- Desert moss slurps water from its leaves, not roots
- Human route into Americas traced via trail of bison fossils
- Tiny plastics cause big problems for perch
- Climate probably stopped Mongols cold in Hungary
- Antibiotics in cattle leave their mark in dung
- Snot could be crucial to dolphin echolocation
- Evidence of 5,000-year-old beer recipe found in China
- Hornbills join toucans in the cool beak club
- History of road-tripping shaped camel DNA
- Venus flytraps use defensive genes for predation
- Why Labrador retrievers are obsessed with food
- A weasel has shut down the Large Hadron Collider
- Nightshade plants bleed sugar as a call to ants for backup
- Peacocks twerk to shake their tail feathers
- Math models predict mysterious monarch navigation
- Pied flycatchers cruise nonstop for days to cross the Sahara
- Five things to know about Zika
- Green was this ancient snake’s signature color
- Ancient Assyrians buried their dead with turtles
- These cyborg beetles walk the walk
- Diverse yeasts make their home on coffee and cacao beans
- Zika may have flown to Brazil in 2013
- How Paralympic sprinters lose speed on curves
- Great tits sing with syntax
- These beetles use surface tension to water-ski
- Fossil reveals an ancient arthropod’s nervous system
- Low levels of radiation from Fukushima persist in seafood
- California gas leak spewed massive amounts of methane
- The dodo was no dummy
- Great Barrier Reef acidification predictions get worse
- Surprise! Ancient armadillos are related to modern armadillos
- Mini-stomachs brew insulin in mice
- Chubby king penguins wobble when they waddle
- Meet the tarantula in black
- Bedbug genome spills secrets of violence, weird sex
- Skin color changes reveal octopus drama
- Tegu lizards warm up for mating season
- New tree frog genus discovered in India
- Bubonic plague hung out in Europe
- Torrent frog flirting is complicated
- Fossils provide link in dino crest evolution
- Littlest chameleons pack powerful tongues
- Roman toilets didn’t flush parasites
- Small lizard packs powerful tongue
- Sharks follow their noses home
- Male monkeys go rouge for mating season
- Stretchy silicon sticker monitors your heartbeat
- Inside the roaring sex lives of howler monkeys
- Roses rigged with electrical circuitry
- Adorable birds tap dance their way into the heart of a mate
- Synchronized dancing boosts pain tolerance
- Howler monkeys sacrifice sperm for deeper roars
- Furry, spiky mammal scampered among dinosaurs
- Asian tiger mosquito genome sequenced
- Climate change could shift New England’s fall foliage
- Bees get hooked on flowers’ caffeine buzz
- Root fungi make or break monarchs’ chances against parasite
- This may be the world’s tiniest snail
- Some bats chug nectar with conveyor belt tongues
- Don’t judge a whale’s gut microbiome by diet alone
- People find the skin of others’ softer than their own
- New dolphin fossil makes a splash
- How dollhouse crime scenes schooled 1940s cops
- How Ethiopian highlanders adapted to breathe thin air
- Pneumonia bacteria attacks lungs with toxic weaponry
- Rare fossils expand evolutionary history of sperm whales
- Woolly mammoth DNA shows toll of low diversity
- To reduce stress and anxiety, make yourself invisible
- Mosquito bites might be foretold in genes
- The moon is about as old as we thought it was
- ‘Geographic tongue’ creates unique topography
- Atmospheric water may be giving Saturn its spots
- Tyrannosaurs fought and ate each other
- Mummies tell tuberculosis tales from the crypt
- Natural selection may be growing taller Dutch people
- Distinct voices fill the fish soundscape at night
- UV light reveals hidden patterns on seashell fossils
- Fossilized seashells’ true colors revealed
- Heat makes scuttling tarantulas less coordinated
- Some superbugs lurk in Britain’s surf
- Songbird crosses the Atlantic in a nonstop flight
- Enigmatic 17th century nova wasn’t a nova at all
- Panda stalking reveals panda hangouts
- A vineyard’s soil influences the microbiome of a grapevine
- Why orangutans cup their mouths to sound an alarm
- Parasites make cannibal shrimp hungry
- How velvet worms slime their prey
- Cyborg beetles reveal secrets of insect flight
- Why lattes are less prone to spills than regular coffee
- How pigeons bob and weave through obstacles
- Superfast evolution observed in soil bacteria
- A little tablet time probably won’t fry a toddler’s brain
- Stem cells from wisdom teeth could help repair corneas
- Gene study digs into partnership between fungi and plants
- To deal with sexual conflict, female bedbugs get flexible
- Wasps may turn ladybugs into zombies with viral weapons
- Ancient wolf skulls challenge dog domestication timeline
- Tropical wasps memorize friendly faces
- Isaac Newton’s theory of how water defies gravity in plants
- Migrating ibises take turns leading the flying V
- How a spider spins electrified nanosilk
- Plant chemical weaponry may offer ammunition for pesticides
- Ebola vaccine performs well in U.K. human trial
- Two sets of neurons turn thirst on and off
- Humboldt squid flash and flicker
- Scrolls preserved in Vesuvius eruption read with X-rays
- Diving marine mammals take deep prey plunges to heart
- Fossilized fish skull shakes up the evolutionary history of jaws
- More here
Smithsonian.com
- Rising Seas Threaten to Swallow These Ten Global Wonders
- How Hurricane Katrina Redrew the Gulf Coast
- What’s the Difference Between Poisonous and Venomous Animals?
- A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous Australians
- These Scientists Hope to Have Half the World’s Plant Families on Ice By the End of Summer
- Genome Analysis Links Kennewick Man to Native Americans
- Six Ways the Civil War Changed American Medicine
- The Oldest Stone Tools Yet Discovered Are Unearthed in Kenya
- Healers Once Prescribed Chocolate Like Aspirin
- Do You Want To Build a Snowman? Physics Can Help
- Poison Hath Been This Italian Mummy’s Untimely End
- Could GM Mosquitoes Pave the Way for a Tropical Virus to Spread?
- The Physics of Champagne Bubbles Could Help Power the Future
- Switching to Farming Made Human Joint Bones Lighter
- NASA Can See Your Holiday Lights From Space
- What’s Your Surgeon’s Jam? Probably Classical or Soft Rock
- These Photos Capture a Decade of Change at Earth’s Poles
- Zigzags on a Shell From Java Are the Oldest Human Engravings
- The Physics of Whisky’s Aesthetically Pleasing Residue
- No, “Bath Salts” Won’t Turn You Into a Cannibal
- Why Some Mammals Kill Babies of Their Own Kind
- Ice Age Babies Surrounded by Weapon Parts Found in Alaska
- Bill Nye on the Risks of Not Debating With Creationists
- This Bird’s Songs Share Mathematical Hallmarks With Human Music
- How Witches’ Brews Helped Bring Modern Drugs to Market
- Seven Vampires That Aren’t Bats (Or Bela Lugosi)
- Ten Species That Are Evolving Due to the Changing Climate
- Ten Years On, the Flores “Hobbit” Remains an Evolutionary Puzzle
- From Pandemics to Pandas, Get the Scoop on Hot Topics Discussed at the Smithsonian’s Anthropocene Event
- Rock (Art) of Ages: Indonesian Cave Paintings Are 40,000 Years Old
- Five Surprises That Emerged From Monarch Butterfly Genomes
- Six Weird Ways Humans Are Altering the Planet
- The Evolution of the Nurse Stereotype via Postcards: From Drunk to Saint to Sexpot to Modern Medical Professional
- Meet the Mighty Spinosaurus, the First Dinosaur Adapted for Swimming
- What Does “Deep Time” Mean to You?
- Promiscuous Whales Make Good Use of Their Pelvises
- See Jewish Life Before the Holocaust Through a Newly Released Digital Archive
- Tracking the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Through Its Genes
- Yawning Spreads Like a Plague in Wolves
- Friendly Neighborhood Spiders Get Bigger in Cities
- Thousands of Microbe Species Live in This Buried Antarctic Lake
- Eight Diseases To Watch Out For At the Beach
- New Desert-Dwelling Pterosaur Unearthed in Brazil
- The Smithsonian Wants You! (To Help Transcribe Its Collections)
- Why Are Scientists Trying To Make Fake Shark Skin?
- Fish Oil Could (One Day) Come From Plants
- Where is Your Closest Farmers’ Market?
- Scientists Decode African Penguin Calls
- Old Time Portraits of Parasites
- Who Knew Fungi and Fruit Fly Ovaries Could Be So Beautiful?
- How Does Nature Carve Sandstone Pillars and Arches?
- Popular Pesticides Linked to Drops in Bird Populations
- 14 Fun Facts About Piranhas
- 14 Fun Facts About Fireworks
- Emperor Penguin Colonies Will Suffer As Climate Changes
- These Psychedelic Images Find Order Amid Chaos
- Squeee! Red Panda Cubs Born at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
- Mind-Controlled Technology Extends Beyond Exoskeletons
- Found: 120-Million-Year-Old Colony of Fossilized Flying Reptiles, Plus Their Eggs
- This Spider Web Was Deliberately Spun to Look Like Bird Poop
- Ebola Vaccine For Chimps Could Help Save Wild Populations
- The National Zoo May Be In For An Elephant Reunion
- Inside Black Holes
- What Would You Do With A Drone?
- The Golden Record 2.0 Will Crowdsource A Selfie of Human Culture
- Why Don’t Octopus Suckers Stick To Their Own Skin?
- For the First Time in More Than 100 Years, Scientists Discover New Seal Genus
- Infographics Through the Ages Highlight the Visual Beauty of Science
- Meet the Babies of the National Zoo
- Paleoartist Brings Human Evolution to Life
- How Will Wildlife Loss Affect Diseases That Jump From Animals to Humans?
- Should We Destroy Our Last Living Samples of the Virus That Causes Smallpox?
- Chernobyl’s Bugs: The Art And Science Of Life After Nuclear Fallout
- This Song (And This Tiger) Will Go Extinct Unless We Save It
- With Google Maps, It’s Now Possible To Travel Through Time
- Recycling: You May Be Doing It Wrong
- In This Community of Brazilian Cave Insects, Females Wear the Penises, Literally
- Five Things We Don’t Know About Tyrannosaurus Rex
- What Can We Learn From Pictures of People and Their Trash?
- Chirps of Coqui Frogs May Be Getting Shorter and Higher Pitched As Climate Warms
- Could Noah’s Ark Float? In Theory, Yes
- Art and Science Collide in the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
- Scientists Build a Yeast Chromosome From Scratch. Next Up? Designer Genomes
- Explore Every Tornado Across the United States Since 1980 Through This Interactive Map
- We Asked Four Teenagers to Explain “Divergent” to Old People
- How Guinness Became an African Favorite
- Africans’ Ability To Digest Milk Co-Evolved With Livestock Domestication
- Korean War Hero Kurt Chew-Een Lee, the First Chinese-American Marine, Dies at 88 Years Old
- Where Do Newly Hatched Baby Sea Turtles Go?
- Adventures In Laser Science
- How Long Does Mass Extinction Take?
- 14 Fun Facts About Lovebirds
- Colorful Plumage Began With Feathered Dinosaurs
- Bumblebees Can Fly Into Thin Air
- 14 Fun Facts About Broncos
- Bubonic Plague Family Tree Sheds Light on the Risk of New Outbreaks
- Maybe Dingoes Don’t Deserve Their Bad Rap
- Scientists Solve Mystery of Birds’ Flying V
- What Drives Sloths’ Ritualistic Trek to Poop?
- The True Inner Beauty of Fishes
- More here
The Daily Beast
Smithsonian.com, Smart News
- This Pesticide Doesn’t Kill Spiders, But It Does Mess With Their Heads
- Why Satellites Are a Biologist’s Best Friend
- Is Chocolate Milk the Next Sports Drink?
- When Will the Next Solar Superflare Hit Earth?
- How a Hellish Road Trip Revolutionized American Highways
- Dinosaurs May Have Lived (and Died) Among Ancient Daisies
- It’s Strangely Difficult to Measure Big Explosions
- The World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Was Too Fragile to Read…Until Now
- Why Coffee Makes Some People Poop
- Watch a Robot Evolve
- A Mysterious Disease Is Killing Corals
- Watch the Perseids Peak This Week
- What’s Behind China’s Professional Tomb Raiding Trend?
- How Do Animals Find Food? The Answer’s in Their Eyes
- Did Shakespeare Smoke Pot?
- Teenage Girls Have Led Language Innovation for Centuries
- Why Don’t Balancing Boulders Fall During Earthquakes?
- What’s Next for the Animas River?
- Steve Jobs is About to Get His Own Opera
- Swiss Troops Stormed France in the Name of Cheese (and Cows)
- Astronauts Fill Out Customs Forms, Too
- This Renaissance Painting of Fruit Holds a Modern-Day Science Lesson
- Teen Schools Professor on “No Irish Need Apply” Signs
- North Korea’s Military Still Uses Stealth Planes From the 1940s
- The United States Once Invaded and Occupied Haiti
- The Science Behind Dogs’ Goofy Greetings
- This Robotic Insect Can Jump on Water
- Maine Brewers Are Selling Lobster-Infused Beer
- NYC Subway Technology Goes Way Back…to the 1930s
- Philae Proves There’s More to Comets Than Dust and Ice
- Only Four Northern White Rhinos Are Left on Earth
- 70 Years Ago, a B-25 Bomber Crashed Into the Empire State Building
- Kids Can Build Their Own Lego Prosthetics
- This Plant Murders Bugs and Decorates Itself With Their Dead Bodies
- In Mexico, a Gritty Neighborhood Has Become a 65,000-Square-Foot Mural
- There’s Flowing Ice on Pluto
- Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Ended in Gruesome Cannibalism
- This Fungus Eats the Butts off Cicadas
- Carrot Liqueur Could Be Coming to a Cocktail Near You
- New Horizons Snaps a Final Shot of Pluto
- Carbon Dating Reveals One of the Oldest Known Copies of the Quran
- Your Pupils May Expand When You Daydream
- Brain-Eating Amoebas May Kill You With Help from Your Own Immune System
- Researchers are Fitting Rhinos With Hidden Horn Cameras
- Root Beer Is For Adults Again
- Watch Wildfire Smoke from Alaska and Canada Envelop the Arctic
- You Can Pay for This Transylvanian Music Festival in Blood
- The Oldest Bald Eagle in the U.S. Was Killed by a Car Last Month
- See the Algerian Sahara From Space
- Someone Stole the Skull of ‘Nosferatu’ Director F.W. Murnau
- 150 Years Ago, a Fire in P.T. Barnum’s Museum Boiled Two Whales Alive
- Of Course Some People Think NASA’s Pluto Pictures Are Fake
- Divers Turn to Robots for Help Scouring the Pacific for Long-Lost WWII Soldiers
- What’s the Deal With Wine Baths?
- What Is a Pentaquark and Why Are Physicists so Excited About It?
- The Statue of Liberty Arrived in New York in 350 Pieces
- In Some Ways, Human Hands Are More Primitive Than Chimp Hands
- What Makes Day Old Water Taste Funny?
- How Pluto Got Its Name
- A Squirrel Virus May Have Killed Three Squirrel Breeders in Germany
- Heroin Use in the United States Increased 150 Percent Between 2007 and 2013
- Why Was One of Hollywood’s First Female Film Directors, Dorothy Arzner, Forgotten?
- Lyme Disease is Spreading, and It’s People’s Fault
- How Do You Give an Iberian Lynx a Pregnancy Test? Use an Assassin Bug
- Washington D.C. Just Got a 10,000 Square Foot Ball Pit
- Researchers Just Found a Surprising Stash of Dinosaur Eggshells in Japan
- This Pac-Man Spacecraft Will Devour a Satellite
- Do Shark Repellents Really Work?
- In 1915 a Former Harvard Professor Tried to Blow Up the U.S. Capitol
- Despite Their Industrious Reputation, Some Ants Are Super Lazy
- Adidas Just Made a Running Shoe Out of Ocean Trash
- Researchers Are Trying to Genetically Engineer Cows to Stay Cool
- Researchers Strapped a Go-Pro to a Sea Turtle, and Here’s What They Got
- In 1950, the U.S. Released a Bioweapon in San Francisco
- Meet the Doctor Who Convinced America to Sober Up
- Is Country Air Really Better Than City Air?
- For Veterans’ Sake, Make A Little Less Noise With Your 4th of July Fireworks
- Where Should Humans Land on Mars? NASA Wants to Hear Your Suggestions
- How the Internet Tracked Down the Designer of the Beloved Jazz Paper Cup
- See Three of Saturn’s Moons Pose in a Family Photo
- Scale El Capitan From Your Couch Using Google Street View
- The First Human Clinical Trial of Synthetic Blood Will Begin Soon
- That Time a Mushroom Coral Ate a Sea Slug
- Jumping Worms Have Invaded Wisconsin
- Racehorse Speed Hasn’t Peaked Yet
- Mustard Is A Product Of Evolutionary Warfare Between Plants And Caterpillars
- The Murky Tale of John Smith and the Mermaid
- A Genetically Modified Sheep was Sent to a Slaughter House and Sold for Meat
- Is This a Photograph of Vincent Van Gogh?
- Can Hookworms Cure Hayfever?
- Poachers Are Killing Andean Camels for Their Wool
- 16 Million Years Ago This Giant Bat Walked the Jungles of New Zealand
- The Mystery of the Failed Chlamydia Vaccine
- Venus (Probably) Has Active Volcanoes
- A Pickle a Day May Keep Your Anxiety a Bay
- Some 19th-Century Physicians Thought Music Could Infect the Brain
- Here Are The Animals That Are the Best at Pretending to Be Poop
- What Does it Really Mean to Be 99 Percent Chimp?
- How Will Climate Change Affect National Park Attendance?
- Louisiana’s Bears Are Making a Comeback
- Some African Countries Are Trying to Use Science to Make Homophobic Laws, Now African Scientists are Pushing Back
- Comet Lander Philae Wakes Up From Nap
- Half of All Languages Come From This One Root Tongue. Here’s How it Conquered the Earth.
- Dinosaurs (Probably) Never Saw the Grand Canyon
- Which Wine Should You Pair With Your Weed?
- Hovering Hawkmoths Slow Down Their Brains to See in the Dark
- Here’s How Claw Machines Are Rigged to Make Sure You Lose
- How to Build the Perfect Campfire
- Google is Trying to Count Calories in Food Porn
- Meet the Mites That Live on Your Face
- Amateur Women’s Baseball Teams Existed as Early as 1866
- French Government Plans to Fine Grocery Stores That Throw Away Food
- Stop Calling Flibanserin “Female Viagra”
- Mini Beavers Once Roamed Oregon
- Yes, Lions Will Hunt Humans if Given the Chance
- Listen to the Dulcet Purr of a Wolf Spider
- Does Planet Earth Need Its Own Flag?
- The Case for Washing Clothes in Cold Water
- Lisbon Artists Are Teaching Graffiti Classes for the Elderly
- These Perfumers Are Analyzing the Stench of Toilets
- London Adds Special Lanes for Ducks
- Here Are Some of the Weird Ways You Could Die in Tudor England
- A New Strain of Canine Flu Is on the Rise
- What Was Life Like for a Girl in the Bronze Age?
- Pac-Man Turns 35 This Month
- Watch a Volcanic Island Form in the Red Sea
- Ancient Carnivores Had a Taste for Neanderthal Meat
- How Will Climate Change Impact Plankton?
- Most Mountains Don’t Come With Pointy Peaks
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Once Helped Clear an Innocent Man of Murder
- How Jumping Spiders See in Color
- Research Confirms Fears that Deepwater Horizon Spill Contributed to Dolphin Deaths
- Vikings Didn’t Just Raid, They Traded Too
- There’s a Spacecraft Cemetery in the Pacific
- How Chemistry Gives New York City Bagels an Edge
- Engineered Yeast Could Open up a DIY Painkiller Market
- No, It’s Not Really Raining Spiders in Australia
- More here
ScienceNOW
National Geographic
- How to Scare Elephants—For Their Own Good
- Google and Twitter Help Track Influenza Outbreaks
- Climate Change Affects Ultrasonic Bat Signals For Better, Worse
- Were People Killing Giant Sloths in South America 30,000 Years Ago?
- Fuel Exhaust Disrupts Scent Signals for Honeybees
- Backpacks on Seabirds Hint at Their Navigation Secret
NPR.org
- An Evolutionary Whodunit: How Did Humans Develop Lactose Tolerance
- Pregnancies Way Past Due Are On The Decline
- Archaeologists Find Ancient Evidence Of Cheese-Making (Co-byline)
- Lead Poisoning Cases Offer New Reminder About Hazards Of Ancient Remedies
- Evidence Mounts Linking Head Hits To Permanent Brain Injury
- More Drugs Cited As Risky Mix With Grapefruit
- West Nile Cases Still Climbing As Temperatures Drop
- Scientists Get A New Look At Einstein’s Brain
- I, Robot: Paraplegics Get An Assist
- Fewer Americans Need Vitamin D Supplements Under New Guidelines
- How Sunlight Weakens Your Skin
- A Lively Mind: Your Brain On Jane Austen (Co-byline)
- Sowing The Seeds For A US Chestnut Comeback
- When It Comes To Boxed Wine, The Cooler, The Better
- Oh Goodies: Wal-Mart Goes Mail-Order Gourmet
- Restaurant Meals Mean More Calories and Soda for Kids and Teens
- Museum Teaches Anatomy And Disease With Ghoulish Bake-off
- Oregon State’s New Cheese Plant Aims To Break The Rind
- How Food And Clothing Size Labels Affect What We Eat And What We Wear (co-byline)
- If Genetically Modified Apples Don’t Brown, Can You Tell If They’re Rotten?
- Why Foods Go Together Like ‘Rama Lama Lama, Ke Ding A De Dinga Dong
Nature
- Plant Science: The Chestnut Resurrection (feature)
- Performance enhancement: Superhuman Athletes (feature)
- Amazon’s extinction debt still to be paid
- Mosquitoes don’t let the rain get them down
- Dolphin genome yields evolutionary insights
- California BSE prion comes with a different twist
- Hot spring yields hybrid genome
- US swine flu outbreak spikes
- California hantavirus outbreak surprises experts
- Cameroon’s elephants hit hard in poaching spike
- Dissolved Iron may have been key to RNA-based life
- Ancient asteroids kept on coming
- Why the 11 April Sumatran earthquake has scientists puzzled
- Experts sound off on Wisconsin mystery quakes
- Climate change shaped ancient burial rituals
- Risk assessment of US agro-biosafety lab found wanting
- Study says US conservation agency ignored scientific advice
- Cuts loom for US science (co-byline)
- Tennessee ‘monkey bill’ becomes law
- US agency seeks voluntary restrictions on animal antibiotics
- Council questions awards by Texas cancer institute
- Chimpanzee bill receives first hearing
- War on weeds loses ground
- Food science deserves a place at the table
- US releases new fracking rules on government lands
- Fracking boom spurs environmental audit
- Murals offer glimpse of Maya astronomy
- Citizen provision found beneficial to US Endangered Species Act
- Texas cancer institute digs out after controversy
- Scaled-back option raised for US agricultural biodefence lab
- US appeals court upholds rules curbing greenhouse gases
- Dolphin genome yields evolutionary insights
- US healthcare research institute awards first grants
- United States launches three biodefence centres
- US officials investigate E. coli outbreak
- Comparative-effectiveness institute announces grant opportunities
- US materials initiative gains momentum
- Entomologist takes charge of US agricultural research institute
- Alzheimer’s funding draws fire at NIH budget hearing
- Early exposure to germs has lasting benefits
- Gene behind van Gogh’s sunflowers pinpointed
Nature Medicine
- After 40 years, fate of recombinant DNA committee under review
- Pipeline for COPD drugs flows with combination candidates
- US National Cancer Institute’s new Ras project targets an old foe
The American Gardener
- “The New USDA Hardiness Zone Map,” The American Gardener, March/April 2012 (feature)
- “Triggering Plant Self-Defense,” The American Gardener, May/June 2012
- “Wheeling-And-Dealing Soil Denizens,” The American Gardener, Jan./February 2011
- “Plant Glow Seen From Space,” The American Gardener, September/October 2011
- “Tree Genes ‘Remember’ Their Roots,” The American Gardener, Sept./October 2011
- “Industrious Tree Squirrels,” The American Gardener, September/October 2011
- “Citizen Science Takes on Invasive Species in Texas,” The American Gardener, July/Aug. 2011
AARP The Magazine
- “Perils of Politeness,” AARP The Magazine, June/July 2012
- “Awkward Friends Save Lives,” AARP The Magazine, April/May 2012
- “Biology of Peer Pressure,” AARP The Magazine, February/March 2012
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