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Ptarmigan Teaching

March 31, 2003

Mother ptarmigans teach their chicks to what foods to eat by calling to them.

March 25, 2003

Using a fake language to figure out how babies learn words

March 19, 2003

Lyme disease is spread to ticks by white-footed mice, which thrive in deforested areas

March 17, 2003

The painting's smile seems to change depending on where you look, because of the neurobiology of the …

February 16, 2003

Attempting to grow vocal cords in the lab to replace damaged ones in the body.

February 12, 2003

Genetically engineered anthrax toxins kill cancer in mice w/o harming healthy tissue

January 29, 2003

Engineered bacteria make a protein that can lay down a pattern of circuits on a computer chip.

December 18, 2002

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding a program to assemble the tree of life.

October 30, 2002

Immunotherapy using lymphocytes to destroy melanoma

October 9, 2002

Engineering a machine to create a lab-reproducible standard for the kilogram