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Infant Logic

March 16, 2018

Infants use an early form of deductive reasoning.

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Roving Bacteria

March 13, 2018

Gut bacteria can escape into other tissues and cause serious illnesses.

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Clean Fish Learn Better

March 12, 2018

Reef fish make better decisions when smaller fish keep them clean.

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Spreading False News

March 9, 2018

Why false news spreads faster than the truth on social media.

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Rewarding Thoughts

March 7, 2018

Neuroscientists observe how dopamine reinforces new learning.

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Rock Water

March 6, 2018

Earth's bedrock helps many forests survive drought.

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Star Wars Robots

March 5, 2018

How realistic are Star Wars’ lovable droids?

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Dino Tracks

March 2, 2018

A slab of rock reveals what appears to be traces of a dinosaur dance party.

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Alaska’s Springtime Solar

March 1, 2018

Alaska’s peak solar producing months are in the spring, rather than the summer.

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Purple sea urchins grow to fit perfectly inside cavities that they create themselves. (Michael Russell/Creative Commons)

Sea Urchin Hideaways

February 26, 2018

Sea urchins carve out their own homes in the rock with their teeth.

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Greater horseshoe bat. (Brehms Tierleben Small Edition,1927)

Age Defying Bats

February 23, 2018

Age-defying bats are providing clues into the prevention of diseases of old age.

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Normal seed cones (left) of the dwarf pine Pinus mugo compared to the shriveled seed cones of trees irradiated with more than 10 times the amount of UV-B that hits Earth's surface today. Once removed from the UV-B growth chambers, the trees regained their fertility. The irradiated trees also produced malformed pollen, which has been observed in fossils from the end of the Permian Period 252 million years ago. (Jeffrey Benca, UC Berkeley)

UV Extinction

February 22, 2018

A new theory into a cataclysmic die-off.

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