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A male turquoise killifish. (Nothobranchius_furzeri_GRZ, Ugu/ CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikipedia)

Fast-Living Fish

August 21, 2018

An animal that grows up, reproduces and dies of old age in just a few weeks.

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Moral Stimulation

July 5, 2018

Electricity may charge up our moral character.

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Loopy DNA

February 28, 2018

How a protein keeps DNA neat, tidy, and ready to replicate.

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Panel 3 in Maltravieso Cave showing three hand stencils. One has been dated to at least 66,000 years ago and must have been made by a Neanderthal - color enhanced. (H. Collado)

Neanderthal Art

February 27, 2018

Sophisticated cave art in Spain may be the work of Neanderthals.

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E-Cigarette Toxicity

February 1, 2018

New evidence of toxicity with e-cigarette use.

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Robot Movement

December 26, 2017

Learning about how the human body moves from anatomically accurate humanoid robots.

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Space Music

December 6, 2017

Turning the Voyager spacecraft particle detector into a musical instrument.

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Tsunami Rafts

September 29, 2017

Japan’s 2011 tsunami carried hundreds of tiny species to the west coast of the United States by on …

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Soy & Mussel Adhesives

September 28, 2017

A researcher develops a shellfish-inspired glue, made with soybeans.

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Plant Hormones

September 13, 2017

Our gut microbes may respond to hormones in the plants we eat.

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Gut Microbes & Longevity

July 20, 2017

Microbes living in our gut may influence how long we live.

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Rooting Out Pythons

July 22, 2016

An invasive python’s own social behaviors could be its undoing in Florida.

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