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- Life
Viruses and mucus team up to ward off bacteria
Phages may play an unforeseen role in immune protection, researchers find.
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- Life
Daytime bites for zombie ants
The living dead of the insect world show an unexplained sense of timing: a surge of strange activity in the a.m. followed by a final death grip at midday.
- Life
Numbers flap has minor implications for global extinctions
A statistical technique used to estimate rates of species disappearance is flawed, two ecologists charge — but not enough to invalidate recent dire assessments.
- Psychology
Geometric minds skip school
Villagers' understanding of lines and triangles raises questions about how people learn the properties of objects in space.
- Earth
Earth & Environment
Cities can break up passing storms, plus wild boar contamination, altered spider sense and more in this week’s news.
- Animals
Chimp has an ear for talk
Human-raised Panzee challenges the notion that only people can discern acoustically altered words.
- Earth
Earth/Environment
Tracking carbon dioxide, fingerprinting uranium and understanding phthalates in boys in this week's news.
- Earth
Earth/Environment
A killer methane belch, radon-siphoning trees, deep oil-spill science and more in this week’s news.
- Life
A cougar in Connecticut
Using DNA and trailside cameras, wildlife biologists retrace the 18-month, 2,000-mile journey of a young male cat.
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On the trail of cell navigation
A computerized amoeba might help show the way.
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