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13 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Thar She Blows … Over
Hurricanes a substantial threat to offshore wind farms along some U.S. coasts
12 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: The Physics of Ponytails
Equation explains why hair grows differently on each person
10 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Toxic Greens Protect Smurf-Tongued Lizards
Noshing on poisonous plants helps bluetongues resist deadly cane toad
10 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Is Venus Slowing Down?
Planet's rotation is about 6 minutes longer compared with 16 years ago
9 February 2012 |
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Video: Scales Give Sharks Their Speed
Tiny ridges on shark skin reduce drag and provide thrust when swimming
9 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Sexy Snake Skin
Estrogen is key to activating red-sided garter snake sex pheromones
9 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Lasers Shine New Light on Quakes
Laser altimeters can help detect unknown faults in quake-stricken zones
6 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Night Songs of the Jurassic
Chirping of ancient katydids reconstructed from fossils
3 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Double-Star System Hosts Ancient World
Both suns are 2 billion years older than Earth
2 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Built by Black Holes?
Super-dense objects may help stars form
2 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Braking a Dead Star's Wild Spin
Magnetic fields may tame the most extreme pulsars
2 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Two-Dimensional Glass
Researchers create world's thinnest pane of glass—and it resembles an 80-year-old sketch
1 February 2012 |
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ScienceShot: How a Restaurant Menu Is Like a Book
Customers don't focus on "sweet spots," according to eye-tracking study
31 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Cowardly Spider Can Inseminate Female From Afar
Male's broken genitalia transfers sperm into cannibalistic female after he's fled
31 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Distracted Female Fish Lose Weight
Gaudy tails in male splitfins are bad news for female foragers
31 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: A Brain Wave Worth a Thousand Words
Computer program reconstructs what a person hears based on brain activity alone
26 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Where to Find Fungi to Fuel Orchids
Symbiotic fungi thrive in mature forests
24 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Ugly Noses Help Bats Navigate
Folds help animals cut through the clutter
24 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Jurassic Crow?
Archaeopteryx sported black feathers
24 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Tulip-Shaped Creature Found in Canadian Rockies
Bizarre animal anchored itself to bottom of Cambrian seas
23 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Brightness Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Incandescent illusions cause the pupils to contract
20 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Death of a Comet Captured for First Time
Astronomers spot object evaporating in sun's atmosphere
19 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Bird Masters of Illusion
Bowerbirds that build skilled optical illusions have higher chances of mating success
19 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: High-Performance Pigeons Have a Dirty Little Secret
Genetics study hints at complicated family ties
19 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: A Revealing Look at the Helix Nebula
New image reveals solar-system-sized clumps and strands of hydrogen gas
17 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: I Can Feel Your Heartbeat ... Stop
Boa constrictors know when to stop squeezing
17 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Is Your Dog a Zen Master?
Genetics influences German Shepherds' ability to keep calm
17 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Why So Many Homeless Planets?
New simulations may help explain why alien worlds are ejected from their solar systems
12 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Climate Change Gives the Albatross a Lift
Increased wind speeds mean less time foraging, more time to eat
12 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Want to Feel Taller? Become the Boss
People in positions of power overestimate their own height
12 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: A Lizard's Leap
Researchers figure out why reptiles are such good jumpers
11 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: These Stars Were Born to Be Wild
Suns formed in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole
11 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Smaller Than a Dime, Frog Is World's Tiniest Vertebrate
Species lives in rainforest leaf litter
10 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Why So Many Monkey Faces?
Diversity of colors in visages of New World primates hints at their social interactions
10 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Cradles in a Stellar Nursery
Astronomers spy clouds of dust hatching new stars
10 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: New Telescope Captures Supermassive Black Hole
LOFAR images jets spanning more than 200,000 light-years
10 January 2012 |
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Video: World's Deepest Hydrothermal Vents
Sea-floor openings are nearly 5000 meters down, swarm with new species
9 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Guard Bees Bulk Up
Protectors of the hive in one Brazilian stingless bee species look very different from their comrades
6 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: The Star That Never Was
Clump of gas and dust never coalesced into a sun
6 January 2012 |
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ScienceShot: Lice Reveal Clandestine Lemur Get-Togethers
Insects hop from lemur to lemur as the primates socialize
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