From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

  1. Chemistry

    Explainer: What are oxidants and antioxidants?

    Certain chemicals, including many in foods, fight chemical reactions that could harm cells in the body and in wildlife.

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  2. Animals

    Awake at Night

    Mutant fruit flies can get by with less sleep than these insects normally need.

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  3. Fossils

    Dinosaur Eggs-citement

    Scientists have found dinosaur eggs, with their shells on, inside a female dino fossil.

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  4. Animals

    A microbe nanny for young wasps

    A smear of bacteria helps baby wasps survive infancy.

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  5. Climate

    Arctic algae show climate change

    Sediment from Arctic lakes shows that much of the Northern Hemisphere has been warming for many decades.

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  6. Animals

    Blotchy face, big-time wasp

    If paper wasps pretend to be something they're not, their peers get angry.

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  7. Earth

    Ancient heights

    Leaf fossils can help track the rise and fall of mountain ranges.

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  8. Brain

    Charging up the brain for reading

    Some kids can become better readers if they learn how written letters match up with speech sounds.

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  9. Planets

    Planets on the Edge

    The discovery of a strange, planetlike object beyond Pluto adds to the puzzle of how the solar system formed.

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  10. Genetics

    A butterfly’s new green glow

    Scientists have tweaked a butterfly's genes to make its eyes glow green.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Building a food pyramid

    Experts are trying to work out new rules on which foods to eat and which ones to avoid.

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  12. Genetics

    Animal clones: Double trouble?

    From agriculture to medicine to law, animal cloning to create genetic twins could change our lives.

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