Life

  1. Life

    Body’s clock linked to depression

    Gene activity in the brain suggests that circadian rhythms are off-kilter in people with depression.

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  2. Animals

    The secret behind the alligator’s toothy smile

    Dental stem cells enable the reptile to grow new teeth every year, researchers find.

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  3. Animals

    Cannibalistic spiders may just be choosy guys

    Male Micaria sociabilis may choose to have older female for lunch, not sex.

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  4. Life

    Exploration forges differences in identical twins

    Mice with the same genes and surroundings diverged in brain development depending on how much they moved around their environment.

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  5. Animals

    Malaria mosquito dosed with disease-fighting bacteria

    After thousands of tries, lab gets parasite-carrying insect to catch Wolbachia.

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  6. Life

    Gut bacteria adapt to life in bladder

    E. coli moving between systems may cause urinary tract infections.

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  7. Humans

    Europe is one big family

    Continent's ancestry merges about 30 generations ago, genetic study finds

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  8. Life

    How a sea anemone grows its tentacles

    Creature's cells change shape to form appendages.

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  9. Animals

    Tongue bristles help bats lap up nectar

    High-speed videos capture stretched-out tongue bumps that stretch out so nectar-feeding bats can slurp up their food.

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  10. Neuroscience

    Pieces of Light

    How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts by Charles Fernyhough.

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  11. Animals

    Winged robots may shed light on fly aerobatics

    After years of trying, researchers create flapping machines that can hover and perform rudimentary flight maneuvers.

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  12. Animals

    Evolutionary enigmas

    Comb jelly genetics suggest a radical redrawing of the tree of life.

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