Life
- Animals
Awake at Night
Mutant fruit flies can get by with less sleep than these insects normally need.
- Brain
Lightening your mood
Bright light may help some people who are seriously depressed feel better.
- Animals
Putting a Mouse on Pause
A gas known as hydrogen sulfide can put mice into a state resembling hibernation.
- Fossils
Dinosaur Eggs-citement
Scientists have found dinosaur eggs, with their shells on, inside a female dino fossil.
- Animals
Doing the Bob
A crane's jerky neck movements may allow the bird to see its food more clearly.
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- Animals
A Sense of Danger
Can animals warn us if an earthquake or some other natural disaster is about to strike?
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- Environment
Saving wetlands
In Louisiana and elsewhere, wetlands are disappearing, threatening plant and animal life.
- Fossils
Dino Flesh from Fossil Bone
Scientists may have found dinosaur blood vessels and cells inside a fossilized leg bone.
- Animals
Elephant Mimics
Two African elephants may be the first land mammals other than primates to learn vocal imitations.
- Animals
Vampire Bats on the Run
Vampire bats on treadmills show a surprising, distinctive running style.
