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- Animals
The buzz about mosquitoes
Learning more about mosquitoes can help us control the blood-sucking insects and prevent deadly diseases.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Sleep lessons from sparrows
During migration season, certain sparrows remain amazingly alert even when they haven't had much sleep.
- Agriculture
Growing healthier tomato plants
How well tomatoes grow depends on how the plants are mulched and fertilized.
By Emily Sohn - Fossils
Dino bite leaves a tooth
Meat-eating dinosaurs sometimes feasted on flying reptiles.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
An inspiring home for apes
A group of scientists wants to establish preserves where orangutans and other primates have the chance to learn and create.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Hot tail gives warning
Ground squirrels can heat up their tails to signal and perhaps taunt rattlesnakes.
By Emily Sohn - Brain
Music lessons for the brain
Taking music lessons may help you become a little bit smarter.
By Emily Sohn - Fossils
Fingerprinting fossils
Researchers can find out in what kind of soil a fossil was originally buried.
By Emily Sohn - Brain
A dog’s amazingly large vocabulary
A border collie named Rico recognizes a surprisingly large number of words.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Hippo sweat is natural sunscreen
Hippo "sweat" contains substances that fight microbes and screen out ultraviolet light.
By Emily Sohn - Plants
Plants travel wind highways
Some plants can hitchhike along invisible freeways of wind to reach distant places.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Prime time for cicadas
Researchers are tracking down why some types of cicadas emerge in vast numbers only once every 17 years.
By Emily Sohn