Artificial Star
A laser beam creates an artificial star in the sky for a telescope's adaptive optics system
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Smell and Behavior
Teasing out how the nose works and how the sense of smell is important in everyday life.
Zeolites
Special compounds might one day be used to trap dangerous, radioactive contamination in soil.
Seasonal Fat
Studying how hamsters gain and lose weight so quickly may teach us more about how humans can do it, …
Dolphin Brains
Learning how the dolphin brain evolved can tell us more about our own brain
Computer Linguistics
Teaching computers to understand ordinary language
Animal Domestication
Digging up bones out of old collections to determine when humans learned to herd animals.
Monogamous Voles
The secret to why some voles are monogamous and others aren't, is where certain receptors are …
Language Trouble
Teasing out how the brain processes long and complex sentences to find ways to treat patients with …
Whey Proteins
Proteins in the whey left over from making cheese can be used to make microcapsules