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Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.
- Health & Medicine
Fat weighs heavy on the brain
New study shows obesity interferes with memory, thinking and reasoning.
- Animals
Eating can be skin deep
In the laboratory, bottom-dwelling hagfish absorb nutrients through the skin.
- Life
Full-body taste
Turns out that the tongue isn’t the only place where the body can taste what you ate.
By Douglas Fox - Plants
Carnivorous plants say ‘cheese’
It took high-speed cameras to reveal how the bladderwort gets lunch.
- Health & Medicine
A framework for growing bone
A promising new material could help encourage damaged or broken bones to grow back.
By Emily Sohn