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  1. Save Our Sounds

    Some 14 libraries around the world have built up substantial collections of natural sounds, from bird songs to fish hums.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Animals

    Rebranding the Hyena

    Zoologists are hoping that long-term ecological studies of the spotted hyena will assist in dispelling the animal's undeservedly bad reputation.

    By John Pickrell
  3. Chemistry

    Tiny spheres may deliver oral insulin

    Researchers have developed microscopic spheres that can sneak insulin past the stomach so it can be absorbed in the small intestine.

    By Jessica Gorman

  4. Ancient Gene Takes Grooming in Hand

    A gene involved in body development also plays a critical role in regulating the grooming behavior of mice, a discovery that may advance the understanding of certain psychiatric disorders.

    By Bruce Bower
  5. Paleontology

    Fossil footprints could be monumental

    Trace fossils found in a vacant lot in a small town in Utah, including the footprints of meat-eating dinosaurs, could soon be protected as part of a new U.S. national monument.

    By Sid Perkins
  6. Astronomy

    Bow-wowing them with radar

    The sharpest radar image ever of an asteroid shows features on 1999 KW4 as small as 7.5 meters—about the length of a stretch limo.

    By Ron Cowen

  7. From the October 31, 1931, issue

    CATS WERE WILD IN ANCIENT SOUTHWEST In ancient America, it was bad luck to meet a cat on a dark night. All the cats that the Indians knew were wildcats. Dogs were tamed and learned to follow Indian hunters and Indian children around, but cats walked by themselves, very wild and alone. The Indian pottery […]

    By Science News
  8. Health & Medicine

    A Model Mouse

    Mice with symptoms similar to rheumatoid arthritis may illuminate the puzzling disorder.

    By John Travis

  9. 18901

    Since pandas produce twins “roughly half the time” and “the mother routinely selects one, and the other dies in a few days,” it seems that there is an opportunity to rear the discarded one experimentally (away from the mother). Has this been tried? It seems a waste to let one of the twins perish. Rhodes […]

    By Science News
  10. Animals

    Wild Hair

    The technique of studying animals through genetic analysis of their fur gained fame with a political furor over lynx, but scientists have applied the technique to many other animals.

    By Susan Milius

  11. Faces of Perception

    Scientists who study face perception currently disagree strongly over whether newborn babies innately know what human faces look like and whether certain brain areas are solely responsible for distinguishing one face from another.

    By Bruce Bower
  12. Animals

    Social Cats

    Who says cats aren't social? And other musings from scientists who study cats in groups.

    By Susan Milius