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Whale-inspired windmills. Tracing the origins of a killer asteroid. Using vowels to sell. And more.
Meaningful Vowels
Vowel sounds in product names may imply what kind of product they're best suited for.
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Ice that won't melt. Finches driven to cheat. How music effects the brain. Increased carbon dioxide produces super weeds.
HPV and cancer in men.
Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll
Listening to our favorite music activates the same region of the brain that is involved in drug addiction.
Unfaithful Finches
Noise pollution from humans makes finches unfaithful.
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Why the flu strikes in winter. The genetic code of one species found inside another's. Salamanders that are too fat to be eaten by predators. Why some of us have perfect pitch and others fall flat. And the effects of pastries on blood sugar.
Perfect Pitch
A Web-based perfect pitch test reveals new details about the musical ability.
Human Traits Roundup
Scientists gain insights into two essentially human traits: walking and talking.
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Sparrows that prefer up-to-date songs, glaciers and global warming, upwardly mobile robots, bacteria to combat oil spills, and how self-tanners work.
Sparrow Song
Song dialects make a big difference when white-crowned sparrows choose mates and defend territories.
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Do women really talk more than men? Insects that explode to foil predators. Energy from vibrations. What happens to our brains when we get thirsty. A skin test to predict behavioral problems.
Harvesting Vibrations
New devices generate power from environmental vibrations.
Talkative Men
Contrary to popular belief, men are just as talkative as women, according to new research.
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How the solar system formed, determining the standard for the kilogram, how brain damage affects art, cancer drugs from trees, protecting ports with underwater using sound.
Sound Tripwire
A new kind of tripwire uses sound instead of string or laser beams.
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The importance of bubbles, living on icebergs, family-oriented plants, eye medicine from oven cleaner, and how water gets from your mouth to your muscles.
Ocean Bubbles
Bubbles play an important role in the exchange of gas between the ocean and the air.
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Listening to muscles, yoga may stave off depression, a blood-based bandage, a protein inhibits aging in fruitflies, and whether lizards or snakes evolved first.
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Why cows have four stomachs, a new development in wireless electricity, babies' surprising eye for language, a genetic typo detector, and an archaeological debunking.
Chanting Chamber
A scientist debunks claims about an ancient burial chamber.
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Making sounds morph, a lost herd of elephants, twins' secret languages, runaway carbon emissions, and the marriage-obesity connection.
Mosquito Roundup
A promising new treatment for malaria is based on an ancient herbal remedy.