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- Animals
Animal CSI or from science lab to crime lab
Scientists are finding new ways to help stop poachers from hunting endangered animals.
- Animals
Diving, rolling and floating, alligator style
Alligators use the muscles around their lungs in a surprising way—to help them move quickly and smoothly through the swamps and waterways in which they live.
- Health & Medicine
Mind-reading machine
Researchers have used brain scans to measure how the brain "sees" pictures—and to try to predict what a person is looking at.
- Chemistry
Explainer: What are oxidants and antioxidants?
Certain chemicals, including many in foods, fight chemical reactions that could harm cells in the body and in wildlife.
- Health & Medicine
How super are superfruits?
Fruits are good for you, but some advertisements claim that certain fruits are especially nutritious. Is there science to support the superfruit hype?
- Space
Ready, set, supernova
For the first time, scientists have caught a star in the act of exploding.
- Health & Medicine
Music in the brain
Scientists have uncovered a pattern of brain activity that may tune up musical improvisation.
- Ecosystems
When fungi and algae marry
Lichens live in nearly every environment on Earth, but scientists are still discovering basic information about them.
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- Chemistry
Hair detectives
Scientists have found a way to figure out where a person is from and where he or she has been, just by looking at samples of the person's hair.
- Animals
Deep krill
Scientists were surprised to find Antarctic krill lurking at the bottom of the sea.
