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576 results for: Tiger

  1. Cerebral Delights

    The amygdala, a part of the brain known for its role in fear, also helps people spot rewards — and go after them.

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  2. Life

    Genetic sameness could be factor in Tasmanian tiger extinction

    The first complete mitochondrial genome of the Tasmanian tiger is revealed. Analysis shows little genetic diversity.

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  3. Young’uns adrift on the sea

    Scientists try to identify and track elusive larvae in a boundless ocean.

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  4. Humans

    Wildlife trade meeting disappoints marine scientists

    The 15th meeting of signatories to the CITES treaty ended on March 25 without passing several proposals to protect high-profile fish species.

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  5. Life

    Cancer plaguing Tasmanian devils began in one animal’s nerve cells

    Genetics provide a starting point for diagnosis and potential vaccines.

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  6. Beneath that blazing facade

    Researchers revamp ideas about what’s in the sun.

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  7. Nature’s recourse

    How plants and animals fight back when deals go sour.

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  8. Life

    Superloud moth jams bat sonar

    Newly recorded moth could be the first demonstrated case of natural sonar-jamming.

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  9. Space

    Sharpshooting Enceladus

    Swooping within 49 kilometers of Saturn’s tiny, geologically active moon Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed the locations of the icy geysers that erupt from the southern hemisphere of this wrinkled moon’s surface.

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  10. Life

    Genes & Cells: Science news of the year, 2008

    Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Genes & Cells. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

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  11. Life

    Reviving extinct DNA

    For the first time, scientists have resurrected a piece of DNA from an extinct animal — the Tasmanian tiger. The researchers engineered mice with a piece of the long-gone marsupial's DNA that turns on a collagen gene in cartilage-producing cells.

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  12. Letters

    Disturbing numbers I found the “Sizing up science” Science Stat (SN: 8/2/08, p. 4) somewhat disconcerting with regard to the opinion about medicine. Basic medical research, in which ties to pharmaceutical companies and the like are not limited, may be “scientific” in the usual sense, but once you enter the arena of clinical research, the […]

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