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Animals

Funny Walks: Cranes bob, bob, bob along when hunting

The jerky neck motions of a whooping crane may help it spot food by keeping its head motionless about half the time.

Physics

Built for Speed: Novel transistor design spurns limits

The novel design of what's now the world's fastest transistor opens the possibility of even speedier devices that could operate as fast as a trillion cycles per second.

Astronomy

Cosmic Primitive: Old star sheds light on early stellar formation

Astronomers have found one of the most chemically primitive stars known, dating to just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.