Life
- Brain
Baby brain, adult disease
Scientists find signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the brains of infants.
- Animals
Cool Jobs: Delving into dung
Scientists uncover fascinating secrets through the study of animal feces.
- Brain
Learning language before birth
Scientists find that newborns can recognize vowel sounds similar to those spoken by their parents.
- Animals
When the nose no longer knows
Pollution can endanger aquatic animals by damaging their sense of smell.
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- Animals
Threatened coral get fishy rescue
When toxic seaweed gets too close to this coral, gobies fight and bite back.
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- Climate
The high life
The sky is full of microscopic life, some of which might even trigger rain or snow.
- Fossils
Shoulder bones fuel debate
Fossil shoulder blades suggest an ancient humanlike species may have been at home in the trees as well as on the ground.
- Fossils
A fishy mammal ID
For more than a century, the fossilized skull of an ancient fish was misidentified as a primate.
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- Health & Medicine
Magnets that kill cancer cells
Researchers devise a way to use magnets to make cells self-destruct.
