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- Animals
Sponges’ secret weapon
An aquatic animal provides a possible new kind of disease resistance.
- Tech
Supergoo to the rescue
The absorbent stuff in diapers may help clean up after a terrorist attack.
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- Health & Medicine
Contemplating thought
Your brain is more complex than a computer, but the two are similar.
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- Animals
When Darwin got sick of feathers
The man who started evolutionary biology had some bad moments over a bird.
- Plants
The man who rocked biology to its core
Two hundred years later, Charles Darwin's ideas still live on.
- Microbes
Hitting the redo button on evolution
Scientists are experimenting with bacteria to see if evolution plays out the same way every time.
- Fossils
Invisible fossils of the first animals
Though the first animals on Earth didn’t leave behind rock fossils, scientists can still find these ancient creatures by observing their invisible molecular fossils.
- Earth
Antarctica warms, which threatens penguins
Unexpected rates of warming threaten to change Antarctica and pose a threat to the survival of some of its penguins.
