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Scientists Solve Mystery Behind Flight of the Bumblebee
Bumblebees will buzz around flowers throughout the day in a seemingly random manner. But a recent study, published in...
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How the Tabby Got Its Stripes: It’s in the Genes
How does a tabby cat earn its stripes? With the right DNA. Scientists say they’ve found the gene that...
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Quasars: Mileposts Marking the Universe’s Expansion
Scientists can’t travel deep space the way Columbus sailed and charted the New World or Lewis and Clark mapped...
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Cosmic Magnifying Lens Unveils Oldest Galaxy
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet for a 13.2-billion-year old galaxy, a finding that provides a key piece...
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Global Climate Revenues Fall 5 Percent in 2011
Global climate revenues fell 5 percent in 2011 to $539 billion from an all-time high the previous year, mainly...
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Scientists Create Atlas of Human Brain
Map reveals the activity of genes across the entire brain to help shed light on neurological and psychiatric conditions
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Songbirds Shed Light on Brain Circuits and Learning
By studying how birds master songs used in courtship, scientists have found that regions of the brain involved in...
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Race Is On as Ice Melt Reveals Arctic Treasures
With Arctic ice melting at record pace, the world’s superpowers are increasingly jockeying for political influence and economic position...
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The Surprising Evolutionary History of Lizards and Snakes
A new study, published online in Biology Letters, has utilized a massive molecular dataset to reconstruct the evolutionary history...
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Icy Particles of Space May Have Been Ingredients for Life on Earth
In an effort to better understand how life started on Earth, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are cooking...