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24 May 2013
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23 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Why Some Cockroaches Check Out of Roach Motels
Some of the insects have evolved to hate the taste of a glucose-baited traps
23 May 2013
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ScienceShot: How the White Tiger Got Its Coat
Scientists find gene behind striking coloration
22 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Working (Too) Hard for Love
Despite a male's best efforts to impress, female strawberry poison frogs simply chose the closest mate
22 May 2013
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Video: Two Galaxies on a Collision Course
Smashup will result in one massive galaxy
22 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Feet Are a Treat for Fungi
Scientists find large diversity of the microbes on our tootsies
21 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Short Plants Are Evolutionary Sprinters
Diminutive species mutate more rapidly than their taller counterparts
21 May 2013
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ScienceShot: The Secret of a Viper's Velvet Black Camouflage
Unique nanostructures allow the predator to fade into the shadows
20 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Why Most Snails Coil to the Right
Researchers uncover evolutionary explanation for lack of "lefties"
17 May 2013
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17 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Fungi Provide an Early Warning System for Plants
Fungus alerts plants to aphid attack
16 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Easy Hiking, and Biking, on Titan
First global topographic map of Saturn's big moon shows a subdued landscape
16 May 2013
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ScienceShot: A Future Baby's Revealing First Photos
Technique could improve success rates of IVF
16 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Chalk + Glass = Beauty
Scientists discover simple set of design rules for creating complex shapes
16 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Invasive Ladybug Carries Fatal Parasite
Infectious fungus key to beetle’s success
15 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Zipping Around Uranus and Neptune
The two giant worlds have only shallow winds
15 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Stinky Feet Smell Sweet to Malaria-Infected Mosquitoes
Insects three times more likely to be drawn to the human odor than their uninfected counterparts
14 May 2013
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ScienceShot: The Inner Lives of Caterpillars
Scientists use high-resolution scanning technique to peer inside developing butterfly
14 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Grizzlies Lose Important Food Source in Yellowstone
Wolves no longer seen as sole killer of elk
14 May 2013
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ScienceShot: The Big Unknown in Sea-Level Rise
Research consortium finally pegs impact of melting ice sheets
13 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Diarrhea Deaths Decoded
Four microbes are responsible for most cases of childhood diarrhea in the developing world
13 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Earliest Ear Bones Sound Off on Human Hearing
Two-million-year-old fossils from human relatives reveal insights to language development
12 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Carnivorous Plant Ejects Junk DNA
Humped bladderwort's genome is only 3% non-gene, the inverse of humans
10 May 2013
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10 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Big Brains May Help Baby Seals Survive Under Ice
Weddell seal pups have larger relative brain at birth than any other mammal
9 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Rocky Planets in the Nearest Star Cluster?
Two stars in the Hyades may have silicate-rich worlds
9 May 2013
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ScienceShot: The Life Cycle of a Bubble
Model splits the life of a foam into three phases
8 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Welcome to the Universe-Wide Web
Galaxies may be connected by strands of gas, which fuel star formation
7 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Wax Moth Has Most Sensitive Ears in Insect World
Evolutionary arms race with bats have ramped up their hearing to unprecedented levels
7 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Your Tongue, Inside Out
New 3D computer model reveals inner workings of our wriggly organ
6 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Shhh, the Plants Are Talking
Study suggests plants may have a surprising way to communicate
3 May 2013
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Top Stories: Living in The Matrix, Cannibalism in Jamestown, and Killing MRSA With Breast Milk
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1 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Exercising Elephants Can't Handle the Heat
Pachyderms' metabolism offers clues to dinosaur behavior
1 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Killing Bacteria, With a Little Help From Breast Milk
Compound decreases microbe resistance to a common antibiotic
30 April 2013
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ScienceShot: Survival of the Fittest, Inside a Shark's Womb
Dominant hatchlings with the best genes eat their siblings
30 April 2013
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ScienceShot: Ugly Fish Is a Super Sucker
Clingfish's belly suction cup bests the real thing
30 April 2013
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ScienceShot: Fly Like a Hummingbird, Glide Like a Swift
Fossil bird reveals origins of two different types of flight
30 April 2013
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ScienceShot: Getting the Straight Poop From Dolphins
Fecal collections provide clues to marine mammal's diet
30 April 2013
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ScienceShot: Global Warming at Your Doorstep
Yards may be pumping a surprising amount of carbon into the atmosphere
29 April 2013
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ScienceShot: Life After Extinction
New analysis of fossil record reveals what happens to marginalized species after mass die-offs
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