Life

  1. Brain

    Learning language before birth

    Scientists find that newborns can recognize vowel sounds similar to those spoken by their parents.

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  2. Animals

    When the nose no longer knows

    Pollution can endanger aquatic animals by damaging their sense of smell.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Ebola in the air

    A deadly virus can spread through the air from pigs to monkeys.

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  4. Animals

    Threatened coral get fishy rescue

    When toxic seaweed gets too close to this coral, gobies fight and bite back.

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  5. Brain

    Baby’s stress can last decades

    Early stress may impair adult behavior, especially in girls.

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  6. Climate

    The high life

    The sky is full of microscopic life, some of which might even trigger rain or snow.

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  7. Fossils

    Shoulder bones fuel debate

    Fossil shoulder blades suggest an ancient humanlike species may have been at home in the trees as well as on the ground.

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  8. Fossils

    A fishy mammal ID

    For more than a century, the fossilized skull of an ancient fish was misidentified as a primate.

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  9. Fossils

    Four-winged dinosaur

    Hind wings helped a small dino make tight turns in midair.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Magnets that kill cancer cells

    Researchers devise a way to use magnets to make cells self-destruct.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Of fish and brain health

    Moms-to-be who eat a diet rich in the right fish may pass along benefits to their children

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  12. Microbes

    A slime with memory

    Even without a brain, this slime mold knows where it’s been.

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