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  1. When Birds Go to Town

    Urban settings offer enterprising critters new opportunities — if they can cope with the challenges 

    By Susan Milius
  2. Humans

    Google a bedbug today

    With no good technological solutions, entomologists call on the public to remain eternally vigilant against a resurgent foe.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Tech

    U.S. network detects Fukushima plume

    Traces of radioactivity attributable to the earthquake-damaged Fukushima reactor complex in Japan have reached the West Coast of the United States.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Health & Medicine

    A new way for blind mice to see

    A new type of prosthetic eye can analyze patterns of cell activity to reproduce images similar to those produced in normal vision.

    By Laura Sanders
  5. Health & Medicine

    Cats attracted to ADHD drug, a feline poison

    Since 2004, drugs designed for use by people have been the leading source of poisonings among companion animals, according to the national Animal Poison Control Center in Urbana, Ill. And among cats, Adderall – a combination of mixed amphetamine salts used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – has quickly risen to become one of the most common and dangerous of these pharmaceutical threats.

    By Janet Raloff
  6. Life

    Feud over family ties in evolution

    Prominent scientists dispute kinship’s role in self-sacrifice among highly social creatures.

    By Susan Milius
  7. Health & Medicine

    How being deaf can enhance sight

    Hearing-specialized brain regions can adapt to processing visual input, cat experiments show.

    By Laura Sanders

  8. Science Past from the issue of March 26, 1960

    HIDDEN WATER TRACED BY BOMB FALLOUT IN RAIN — Radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests can be used to seek out and “expose” new sources of drinking water that lie hidden deep in the earth…. Raindrops have an affinity for absorbing minute particles of tritium from the fallout left in the atmosphere after nuclear bomb […]

    By Science News
  9. Humans

    Collapsing Coastlines

    How Arctic shores are pulled a-sea 

    By Daniel Strain
  10. Health & Medicine

    Going Under

    While every anesthetic drug has its own effect, scientists know little about how the various versions work on the brain to transport patients from normal waking awareness to dreamless nothingness.

    By Susan Gaidos
  11. Chemistry

    Smelling the menu

    Mouse breath triggers special cells in the nose that help send a safe-to-eat message.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  12. Humans

    Odds Are, It’s Wrong

    Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics.

    By Tom Siegfried