Butterfly Migration Radar
Radar data, along with highly coordinated observations, has solved a disappearing-butterfly mystery.
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Dung Beetle Cooling
Dung beetles use balls of fecal matter not only for food and reproduction, but for cooling as well.
Forgetting Bad Memories
The brain has two very different mechanisms for erasing bad memories.
UV Disinfectant
Short-wave ultraviolet radiation can clear dangerous germs from hospital rooms.
Komodo Dragon Housework
Housework may be killing female Komodo dragons at an early age.
Marshmallows Revisited
Children in the classic “Stanford Marshmallow Study” may have been more strategic than we thought.
Seeing Inside Fukushima
Cosmic rays called muons could help detect uranium in damaged Japanese nuclear reactors.
Amniotic Fluid Medicine
Cells from amniotic fluid can be reprogrammed more stably than traditional stem cells.
Medicine Improves Nylon
Cancer research may have just solved a big problem for the nylon industry.