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Western black-legged ticks. (Ervic Aquino/California Department of Public Health)

Ticks By Mail

July 18, 2018

Scientists ask volunteers to share their ticks.

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Cancer vs. Cancer

July 17, 2018

Turning cancer cells into cancer-fighting machines.

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Aerial-view-of-some-of-the-fish-salting-tanks-cetaria-in-the-ancient-Roman-city-of-Baelo-Claudia-near-todays-Tarifa-in-Spain.-The-largest-circular-tank-is-3-meters-wide-with-a-18m3-capacity. (D. Bernal-Casasola, University of Cadiz)

Lost Whales

July 16, 2018

Whales used the Mediterranean as breeding grounds during ancient Roman times.

Read moreLost Whales
A palm cockatoo. (wildfaces/pixabay/CCO)

Drumming Cockatoos

July 13, 2018

Researchers discover that cockatoos use sticks and seed pods to drum out rhythms on tree limbs.

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Researchers in Texas attached miniature radio transmitters to kissing bugs and tracked their movements. (Gabriel Hamer/Texas A&M University/Journal of Medical Entomology)

Tracking Kissing Bugs

July 12, 2018

Miniature transmitters help scientists track a blood-sucking pest.

Read moreTracking Kissing Bugs
This photograph shows a ballooning spider. Michael Hutchinson

Spider Ballooning

July 11, 2018

Spiders sail through the air on electrical currents.

Read moreSpider Ballooning
Made from Lego bricks and a smart phone, a device is connected to free software and utilizes the phone's camera to identify and detect nerve agents, like VX and sarin. (University of Texas at Austin)

Lego Nerve Gas Detector

July 10, 2018

Chemists design a mobile, affordable nerve gas detector out of Lego bricks.

Read moreLego Nerve Gas Detector
An orangutan mother and infant in heavily disturbed landscape dominated by oil palm plantations in the Lower Kinabatangan floodplain, Malaysia Borneo. (HUTAN KOCP Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme)

Orangutan Resilience

July 9, 2018

Orangutans may be more resilient to human disturbance than once thought.

Read moreOrangutan Resilience
Chihuahuas trace their DNA back to European breeds rather than ancient American dogs. BarnImages/Pixabay/CCO)

North American Dogs

July 6, 2018

What happened to ancient American dogs, and where did they come from in the first place?

Read moreNorth American Dogs

Moral Stimulation

July 5, 2018

Electricity may charge up our moral character.

Read moreMoral Stimulation
Is there an upper limit to the human lifespan? (Free-Photos/CC0)

Oral Insecticides

July 4, 2018

An oral pesticide could turn the tables on biting insects.

Read moreOral Insecticides

Microbial Protein Feed

July 3, 2018

Could microorganisms be the key to producing more sustainable protein for the growing human population?

Read moreMicrobial Protein Feed

Lifespan Limits

July 2, 2018

When it comes to lifespan, do humans have a fixed finish line?

Read moreLifespan Limits

Small Town Archaeology

June 29, 2018

A town square offers a trove of archaeological discoveries.

Read moreSmall Town Archaeology

eDermis

June 28, 2018

Synthetic skin can restore a richer sense of touch to prosthetic limb users.

Read moreeDermis
Image of a giant anteater

Anteater Diet

June 27, 2018

How giant anteaters get enough food into their tiny mouths to survive.

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(Robert Lachlan)

Songbird Culture

June 26, 2018

How a small songbird’s cultural traditions persist for more than a thousand years.

Read moreSongbird Culture

Daily Tweet Cycle

June 25, 2018

Can tweets reveal how thoughts and moods shift throughout the day?

Read moreDaily Tweet Cycle

North American Sea

June 22, 2018

The enormous sea that once covered North America formed more recently than was thought.

Read moreNorth American Sea

Disoriented Alzheimer’s

June 20, 2018

Research into the brain's compass may help diagnose and treat Alzheimer's disease.

Read moreDisoriented Alzheimer’s
In a zebrafish larva, a dark umbrella formed by pigmented cells (white arrows point to these black spots in box, left) in the kidney protects vulnerable stem cells from damaging UV light. Right image is a closeup of the box. Scale bars equal 100 micrometers (left) and 50 micrometers (right). (F. Kapp et al./Nature 2018)

Stem Cell Umbrellas

June 19, 2018

Pigmented cells shade blood producing cells from sun damage in the kidneys of fish.

Read moreStem Cell Umbrellas
A captive bumblebee walks across the surface of an artificial flower, working out the pattern of scent that has been made by placing peppermint oil in some of the holes. (Dave Lawson, University of Bristol)

Bees Smell Flowers

June 18, 2018

Flowers produce invisible smell patterns on their surfaces to lure bees in.

Read moreBees Smell Flowers
Coyotes are one of many mammal species that alter their 24-hour activity patterns in response to human disturbance. (Skeeze/Piabay/CCO)

Night Shift Animals

June 15, 2018

Many mammals avoid humans by seeking the cover of night.

Read moreNight Shift Animals
The team’s lab setup was used to test the powerplant condenser system. The mesh is placed above the funnel at right to collect the water that condenses on the mesh. (Courtesy of the researchers)

Water from Power Plants

June 14, 2018

Engineers harvest freshwater from power plants.

Read moreWater from Power Plants
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