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  1. Ecosystems

    Sperm whales may team up to herd prey

    Data recorders yield first hints of coordinated feeding behavior.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Life

    One ocean, four (or more) killer whale species

    Killer whales may be at least four species, a new study of mitochondrial DNA shows.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Earth

    The FY 2011 budget: So much for transparency

    Cabinet officials and other administration leaders met with reporters yesterday to outline the President’s Fiscal Year 2011 federal budget. That spending blueprint includes $147-billion-and-change for research and development programs. But in contrast to past years, details tended to be skimpy today — and any chance for followup or verification of apparent trends has proven more difficult than usual.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Science & Society

    A modest proposal for federal science spending

    President’s proposed FY 2011 budget outlines 5.9 percent increase in nondefense-related research and development funding.

    By Science News

  5. All kinds of tired

    Donkeys sleep about three out of each 24 hours. Certain reef fish spend the night moving their fins as if swimming in their sleep. Some biologists argue that all animals sleep in some form or another. But identifying sleep can get complicated. Insects have brain architecture so different from humans’, for example, that electrophysiological recordings […]

    By Susan Milius
  6. Ecosystems

    Google works on a different web

    Page ranking system inspires algorithm for predicting food webs’ vulnerability.

    By Susan Milius

  7. Life from scratch

    Relaunching biology from the beginning.

    By Charles Petit
  8. Earth

    Fossil of a walking seal found

    A fossil skeleton discovered in the Canadian Arctic could represent a missing link in pinniped evolution.

    By Solmaz Barazesh
  9. Health & Medicine

    Genome 10K: A new ark

    Featured blog: Researchers are working to catalog the DNA sequences of just about every vertebrate genus.

    By Janet Raloff

  10. Stomach’s Sweet Tooth

    Turns out taste is not just for the tongue.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  11. Animals

    SOS: Call the ants

    Emergency ant workers bite at snares, dig and tug to free trapped sisters

    By Susan Milius
  12. Life

    It’s not their dirty mouths

    Komodo dragons kill prey with venom, not oral bacteria, study suggests.

    By Laura Sanders