April 2012 Archives
30 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Crickets Sing Deeper When Cold
When their energy is sapped, tree crickets can't chirp as high
30 April 2012
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Natural Selection Is Still With Us
Church records confirm that 18th and 19th century people still followed Darwin's rules
30 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Literature Runs From Its Past
Modern writers want a break from their predecessors
29 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Wind Farms Warm the Night
West Texas turbines found to increase local temperatures by as much as 0.65°C
27 April 2012
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Effective Ad? Ask Your Brain
Neural activity predicts which antismoking ad will elicit the greatest public response
27 April 2012
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ScienceShot: It's 'Shields Up' for Stain-Fighting Clothing
Scientists create a super water-repellant fabric coating
27 April 2012
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Podcast: Genetic Scars, Creepy People, and Acid-Fighting Body Armor
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27 April 2012
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Mapping China's Ancient Name Game
Geographic patterns of country's surnames match historic migrations
26 April 2012
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Did Dodging Disease Keep Pygmies Small?
Stature may be genetically linked to immunity, new study shows
26 April 2012
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To Keep the Faith, Don't Get Analytical
Study suggests that analytic thinking can undermine religious belief
26 April 2012
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Experiments Probe Language's Origins and Development
Language researchers are heading to the laboratory to test hypotheses
26 April 2012
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Global Pigeoning System
Scientists have homed in on the brain cells that give birds their astonishing ability to navigate
26 April 2012
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Hormones Help Tiny Sharks Glow
Melatonin and prolactin act as on-off switches for luminescent fish
25 April 2012
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ScienceShot: A Late Pummeling for Earth
Life had to cope with globe-ravaging impacts
25 April 2012
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Galaxies Defy Astronomers' Expectations
Ancient galaxies formed stars differently from the way they do today
25 April 2012
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Live Chat: Too Dangerous to Publish?
Talk with experts about how the recent controversy over avian flu studies could change the way science is conducted
24 April 2012
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Body Armor for Breathing?
"Dermal bone" may have helped early land dwellers overcome inefficient lungs
24 April 2012
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Video: Tiny Container Could Make Blood Tests Less Painful
Device wraps around single liquid droplet to prevent evaporation
24 April 2012
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Childhood Stress Leaves Genetic Scars
Abuse may shorten the caps of chromosomes, potentially leading to premature aging and disease
24 April 2012
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Cocaine May Age the Brain
Younger and middle-aged addicts have elderly brains, imaging study finds
23 April 2012
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Fight Against Measles Appears Stalled
WHO misses goal to reduce deaths by 90%
23 April 2012
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Where's the Beef? Early Humans Took It
Rise of human hunting and scavenging drove large carnivores extinct, new study suggests
23 April 2012
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Why Creepy People Give Us the Chills
Individuals who inappropriately mimic the body language of their peers can leave acquaintances feeling cold
23 April 2012
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No Love for Comet Wipeout
Findings argue against extraterrestrial impact snuffing out mammoths and early Indians
23 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Radiohead Was Right
Under pay-what-you-want pricing, self-image keeps us from ripping others off
20 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Giving Bugs to Show Love
Male spiders entice mates with food, but at a cost
20 April 2012
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ScienceShot: No Letup in World's Warming
Oceans continue to soak up most of our greenhouse heat
20 April 2012
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Podcast: Time-Tripping Bees, Eavesdropping on the Brain, and One Big Pile of Bird Poop
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20 April 2012
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Announcing: Dance Your Ph.D. 2012!
Submit your entries now for this year’s contest
19 April 2012
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Has Dark Matter Gone Missing?
Our corner of the Milky Way is devoid of the stuff, one team of astronomers claims
19 April 2012
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Light Bends by Itself
Self-bending rays could be a way to remotely move small objects
19 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Baleen Whales Use 'Ear Fat' to Hear
Soft tissues could conduct sound to the ear
19 April 2012
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Trouble on the Yangtze
Upriver habitats are now at risk from a series of new projects
18 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Like Devils, Tasmanian Tigers Were Inbred
A new analysis of the now-extinct marsupial finds low genetic diversity
18 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Jupiter, Born Too Late?
Kepler finds tentative evidence that older stars have larger gas giants
18 April 2012
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Hanging Out at an Ancient Oasis
Ancient octopus kin lived entire lives at "methane seeps" on sea floor
18 April 2012
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How to Become an Expert Tightrope Walker
Mathematicians find "sweet spot" for balancing on a slackline
18 April 2012
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Brain Implants Help Paralyzed Monkeys Get a Grip
Eavesdropping on neurons helps researchers restore the ability to grasp objects
18 April 2012
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Live Chat: Human-Triggered Earthquakes
Talk to experts about the role we play in shaking up Mother Nature, including the indirect impacts of "fracking"
17 April 2012
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Clues to Species Decline Buried in Pile of Bird Excrement
Researchers sift through 2 meters of guano to investigate disappearance of chimney swift
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