Panda Love Songs
Vocalizations by female giant pandas change to indicate when they are fertile.
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Mountaintop removal mining's devastating effects on the environment, ancient Martian lakes, an herbal disappointment, fish that punish cheaters, and reading and writing in the brain.
Feather Songs
A South American bird serenades potential mates by rubbing its wing feathers together.
Venomous Dinosaurs
A venomous feathered dinosaur may have eaten its prey alive.
Naked Mole Rat Survival
Naked mole rats can survive without oxygen longer than any other mammal.
Animal Antics
For some animals, being too attractive to the opposite sex can actually hurt the gene pool.
Running Monkeys
Vigorous exercise helps monkeys avoid symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
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BRAIN REPORT: Vigorous exercise could stave off Parkinson's disease, oxygen-defying naked mole rats, why alcohol and caffeine make a dangerous combination, and why you can't fool anyone on Facebook.
Insect Engineering Roundup
Insects inspire innovations in cell biology and medicine.
Sandcastle Worm Glue
A small sea creature inspires a potentially useful medical glue.
Ancient Pollination
Millions of years before flowers evolved, insects were pollinating non-flowering plants.
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Ancient insect pollinators, your body's unique microbes, a marine creature that could fix broken bones. Also: does chewing gum really take years to digest?
Bat Syndrome
Researchers unveil a bold plan to save endangered bats from a deadly fungus.
Whale Clicks
Researchers are learning how sperm whales avoid interrupting each others' echolocation signals while they hunt for prey.
Sleep Deprivation
Researchers discover how to reverse the cognitive effects of sleep deprivation in mice.
Reptile Roundup
Huge snakes are invading southern Florida and wreaking havoc on the native wildlife there.
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Rescuing the brain from sleep deprivation, too much light can be depressing, sobering news in the treatment of chronic illness, and an installment of our new series, Reality Check.
Vegetarian Spiders
A population of spiders in Mexico subsists almost entirely on plants.
Butterfly Navigation
Monarch butterflies use their antennae to help them navigate thousands of miles to Mexico.
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Debunking 2012 doomsday hype, developing a better rocket fuel, vegetarian spiders, and the genetics of aggression in Africanized bees.
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How Monarch butterflies navigate their way to Mexico, do honeybees really die when they sting you, why apologies are better than cash, and brain scans that reconstruct what you were just looking at.
Social Insects Roundup
Fruit flies and humans share some of the same genes for learning; and one ant species lacks males entirely.