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  1. Animals

    Slavemaker Ants: Misunderstood Farmers?

    A test of what once seemed too obvious to test—whether ant colonies suffer after being raided by slavemaker ants—suggests that some of the raiding insects have been getting unfair press.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Animals

    Fishy Paternity Defense: Bluegill dads: Not mine? Why bother?

    Bluegill sunfish have provided an unusually tidy test of the much-discussed prediction that animal dads' diligence in child care depends on how certain they are that the offspring really are their own.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Health & Medicine

    Protein Pump: Experimental therapy fights Parkinson’s

    Bathing surviving dopamine-making neurons with a natural protein that induces nerve-fiber growth reverses some of the symptoms in Parkinson's disease patients.