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WEIRD SCIENCE: Behind the legend of the chupacabra, does cracking your knuckles cause arthritis? A physiological explanation for near-death experiences, and animals that live without oxygen.
Language & Music
Evidence from patients with brain damage suggests that music and language overlap in the brain.
Driving & Talking
Driving interferes with speaking and language comprehension.
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AAAS ANNUAL MEETING SPECIAL - How diabetes benefits dolphins, dolphin intelligence and welfare update, looking for new drugs from the sea, and how genes affect your susceptibility to germs.
Panda Love Songs
Vocalizations by female giant pandas change to indicate when they are fertile.
Feather Songs
A South American bird serenades potential mates by rubbing its wing feathers together.
Newborn Accents
The sound of a newborn baby's cry depends on the language its parents spoke while it was in the womb.
Whale Clicks
Researchers are learning how sperm whales avoid interrupting each others' echolocation signals while they hunt for prey.
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Satellites for human rights, a sprinter's anatomical advantage, the face of aggression, and newborns with accents.
Virtual Sounds
New computer programs generate real-time, accurate sounds for virtual-reality events.
Computer Composer
A new computer program can generate an infinite amount of original music.
Prairie Dog Alarms
Prairie dogs have different alarms calls for predators of different colors and different species.
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SOUNDS & SIGNALS: Prairie dogs sound the alarm, turning bed bugs against themselves, bird songs vary by climate, and improving forensic voice comparison.
Birdsong & Climate
Birds that live in more variable climates sing more sophisticated songs.
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HEARING & SOUND: Why hyenas are anything but funny. Can animals dance to a beat? Using sound to save the whales. And physical fitness worsens hearing, but estrogen improves it.
Dancing Animals
Some animals can dance to a beat, while others have no rhythm.
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Caterpillars infiltrate ant nests, loneliness and your health, how planes can fly upside down, and more.
Infant Rhythm
Newborn babies can sense when a musical rhythm goes off the beat.
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EVOLUTION SPECIAL: Celebrating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, the evolution of kissing, mosquito love duets, robot sex, and the unhealthy history of the human diet.
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ANIMAL BEHAVIOR: How polarized light fools insects, turning dolphins sounds 3-D, and tracking bird migration from space.
Dolphin Voiceprints
New technology turns dolphin sounds into 3-D images.
Doppler Baby Monitor
A Doppler radar baby monitor could alert parents when an infant stops breathing.