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Medicine
New Actions of Neurochemicals Found
Friday, July 3rd, 2009 - 12:53:59 - Anuradha Menon
Although the tiny roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has only 302 neurons in its entire nervous system, studies of this simple animal have...

Robots
Rat's Whiskers Inspire Robot Advance
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 - 10:44:19 - Anuradha Menon
A robotic rat that can scurry through the dark using its plastic whiskers to navigate could be used to help rescue people from burning buildings...

Biology
'Best' Animal Dads
Saturday, June 20th, 2009 - 09:02:59 - Anuradha Menon
Father's Day, which falls this year on Sunday, June 21, annually honors committed human dads. But seahorse fathers might just blow those proud papas...

Biology
Scientists Announce Top 10 New Species
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 - 10:16:07 - Anuradha Menon
A pea-sized seahorse, the world's longest insect, a "ghost slug" and the world's smallest snake were among the top 10 species discovered in 2008, a...

Medicine
Zoos Help Track Spread of Pandemics
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 - 13:57:06 - Ehud Rattner
Zoos are being drafted by the US government to track the spread of avian influenza this spring. But there seem to be no plans yet to use the zoo...

Biology
Crabs Feels and Retains Memory of Pain
Friday, March 27th, 2009 - 14:16:50 - Anuradha Menon
New research published by a Queen's University academic has shown that crabs not only suffer pain but that they retain a memory of it. The study...

General Science
Team Observes Genesis of Fish Shoals
Friday, March 27th, 2009 - 12:03:54 - Anuradha Menon
For the first time, MIT engineers and colleagues have observed the initiation of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of...

Biology
Mechanical Mother Comforts Monkey
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 - 10:22:27 - Sarah Gingichashvili
A hand-reared monkey has been given a mechanical surrogate mother to help keep her company. After the birth of the female DeBrazza's monkey by...

General Science
Sponges May Be Earliest Animal Life
Saturday, February 7th, 2009 - 12:29:30 - Anuradha Menon
Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the apparently sudden appearance in the fossil record of a great variety of multicellular creatures -- a rapid...

Biology
First Ever Extinct Animal Cloned
Friday, February 6th, 2009 - 18:34:02 - Anuradha Menon
New cloning work could clear the way for resurrection of many recently extinct beasts. In the realm of commercial cloning, trickled-down technology...

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