Life
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Life
Supreme Court lifts restriction on Navy sonar testing
Justices overturn restrictions that require Navy to stop using sonar when marine mammals are within 2,200 yards of vessels.
- Ecosystems
Costs of Choked-Up Waters
Scientists tally the economic toll of fertilizing pollutants on water quality.
- Life
Stone Age gal gets hip
Researchers have found an approximately 1-million-year-old fossil pelvis that, in their view, indicates that Homo erectus females gave birth to surprisingly big-brained babies.
- Life
Schools make fish smarter
A study of consensus decision making shows that sticklebacks make wider choices in groups of three or more.
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- Life
Morse Toad: When amphibians tap their toes
Toe wiggling creates motions, vibrations that get potential prey moving.
- Chemistry
First complete cancer genome sequenced
With the entire genome sequence of a tumor now in hand, scientists may be able to start answering basic questions about cancer.
- Climate
Climate change stifling lemmings
Warmer winter temperatures are altering the snowpack, squelching the rodents’ population booms.
- Chemistry
Oldest evidence for complex life in doubt
Chemical biomarkers in ancient Australian rocks, once thought to be the oldest known evidence of complex life on Earth, may have infiltrated long after the sediments were laid down, new analyses suggest.
- Animals
Bat syndrome’s telltale white nose-mold new to science
Newly cultured fungus named as a suspect in deadly white-nose syndrome
- Life
The Iceman’s mysterious genetic past
Scientists say that they have identified the complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the 5,000-year-old Tyrolean Iceman, whose body was found protruding from a glacier in 1991.
- Health & Medicine
A sugar helps E. coli go down
Some harmful strains of E. coli might rely on something sweet to do harm.
