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Month: April 2012

April 30, 2012 Dream:ON App - Can a smartphone app influence your dreams?
April 27, 2012 Chilly Relationships Roundup - Social anxiety can affect how you sense temperature.
April 26, 2012 Predators & Plants - Eliminating bears, wolves, and other top predators has far-reaching consequences.
April 25, 2012 Baboon Words - Baboons can learn to distinguish English words from nonsense letter sequences.
April 24, 2012 Matching the Drug to the Bug - A new technique can quickly identify a pathogen and size up its drug resistance, all with one test.
April 23, 2012 Penguins from Space - Researchers have estimated the total number of Emperor Penguins in Antarctica using satellite images.
April 20, 2012 Translational Medicine Roundup - A microscopic capsule delivers chemotherapy drugs to tumor cells without damaging healthy cells.
April 19, 2012 Raindrop Fossils - Raindrop impressions, preserved for 2.7 billion years, reveal clues about the early Earth's climate.
April 18, 2012 Self-Healing Plastic - Scientists have developed a plastic that repairs itself when damaged.
April 17, 2012 Emotional Music - Music and speech use the same tonal qualities to evoke happy and sad emotions.
April 16, 2012 Internet Symptom Checkers - People draw different conclusions from online symptom checkers, depending on how the symptoms are listed.
April 13, 2012 Art Roundup - What caused Leonardo da Vinci’s famous self-portrait to yellow with time, and the genetics behind Vincent Van Gogh’s mutant sunflower paintings.
April 12, 2012 Deep-Voiced Politicians - Politicians with deep voices may garner more respect – and votes.
April 11, 2012 Tumor-Shrinking Drug - Scientists are testing a drug that shrinks a wide variety of cancerous tumors.
April 10, 2012 Sugar-Free Carnivores - Each group of carnivores has a different set of genetic mutations that has knocked out its sweet tooth.
April 9, 2012 Antibiotics and Asthma - Taking antibiotics early in life can lead to asthma, according to a study in mice.
April 6, 2012 Tech Roundup - Researchers have designed a camera that can see around corners.
April 5, 2012 NYC Frog - Researchers found a previously unknown frog species in New York City.
April 4, 2012 Light Circuits - Researchers are designing faster, smaller circuits that use light instead of electricity.
April 3, 2012 Monkey Miscarriages - Wild gelada monkeys spontaneously abort pregnancies when a new male takes over the group.
April 2, 2012 Comet Harpoon - NASA scientists are testing a harpoon that could bring back samples from comets.