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Recent Archives
Gibbons on Helium
An experiment with helium shows that gibbons can manipulate their vocal tracts like expert opera singers.
Surviving Rabies
Some people in the remote Peruvian Amazon have developed antibodies to rabies.
Podcast for 31 August 2012
WHALES, APES & BIRDS – Chimps don’t share our sense of justice. What gibbons on helium can tell us about opera singers. Deciphering the peacock’s hidden message. What an endangered whale has in common with songbirds. Also: Did a Central American rodent save a tree species from extinction?
Flora & Fauna Roundup
A strange looking tropical plant is helping researchers understand the life-cycle of the cell.