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  1. Health & Medicine

    A Model Mouse

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

    By John Travis

  2. 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
  3. 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

  4. 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
  5. Animals

    Social Cats

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

    By Susan Milius

  6. Plight of the Untouchables

    Stigma's largely unexplored effects on the health of people sufering from ailments ranging from AIDS to schizophrenia attracted much interest at a recent conference.

    By Bruce Bower

  7. Genetic search for an equine Eve fails

    Genetic analysis suggests an unusual history for modern horses: lots of independent domestications instead of the usual few.

    By Susan Milius
  8. Materials Science

    Getting Out the Thorn

    Researchers are developing new ways to improve the compatibility of implantable biomaterials in the body.

    By Jessica Gorman

  9. Meeting Danielle the Tarantula

    Insect zoos have no lions, tigers, or bears but can give plenty of thrills, courtesy of tarantulas, giant beetles, and exotic grasshoppers.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Math

    Fibonacci’s Chinese Calendar

    In a book completed in the year 1202, mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (also known as Fibonacci) posed the following problem: How many pairs of rabbits will be produced in a year, beginning with a single pair, if every month each pair bears a new pair that becomes productive from the second month on? The total […]

    By Ivars Peterson

  11. The Lives of Pandas

    On a tight energy budget, newborns no bigger than chipmunks grow into roly-poly superstars.

    By Susan Milius

  12. A Fly Called Iyaiyai

    All that Latin has its light side.

    By Susan Milius