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- Physics
Einstein’s skateboard
Kids vying to be top young scientist of the year tackled challenges inspired by the work of Albert Einstein.
- Animals
Toxic Birds May Get Poison from Beetles
Eating certain beetles may make the skin and feathers of some birds poisonous.
- Brain
Sleep to Remember Places and Routes
Deep sleep may help your brain solidify memories of where you've been and how you got there.
- Tech
Explorer of the extreme deep
A new project to build an improved research sub aims to shed light on the mysterious ocean depths.
- Humans
Little people cause big surprise
Scientists uncover the skeleton of a small-bodied relative of human beings.
- Animals
Growing up in dangerous waters
Wild guppies that live in dangerous places don't live fast and die young as scientists previously thought.
- Tech
Inspired by nature
Researchers are applying lessons learned from butterflies, beetles, mussels, and other creatures to problems of human survival.
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- Fossils
Early birds ready to rumble
A fossil hints that prehistoric baby birds could have fed themselves soon after hatching.
- Health & Medicine
Packing Fat
Even among kids, waistlines are bulging, and many people are worried about the trend.
- Brain
Fruit fly brain has two clocks
Fruit flies have not one, but two built-in clocks to regulate daily activity.
- Brain
Hearing Better in the Dark
Blind people are better at locating distant sounds than people who can see.
