Life

  1. Animals

    Preventing frog-sicles

    Wood frogs avoid becoming frogsicles with natural antifreeze.

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  2. Animals

    Gorgeous eco-bullies

    ‘Foreign’ lionfish — aquarium castoffs — have been invading American coastal waters at an alarming rate and gobbling up the natives.

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  3. Brain

    Caffeine rewires brains of baby mice

    Brain changes and memory problems plagued mouse pups whose moms had consumed caffeine during pregnancy.

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  4. Brain

    Sleepyheads prefer junk food

    A night without sleep changes the brain and how appetizing people find high-calorie foods.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Camels linked to mystery disease

    A mysterious and deadly virus has sickened 94 people — killing 46 — in parts of the Middle East, Europe and northern Africa. A new study finds that camels (the one-humped type) may have introduced the new disease to people. The germ responsible is a virus that lives in people’s lungs, throats and noses. Scientists recently named the disease it causes Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS.

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  6. Animals

    Explainer: Animals’ role in human disease

    Wildlife, livestock and pets are the source of most germs that can sicken people

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  7. Brain

    Teen fighting may harm IQ

    Blows to the head may explain these effects on the brain.

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  8. Brain

    Fake memories

    A flash of light in the brain plants false memories.

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  9. Brain

    Nature resets body’s clock

    After a week in the wild, people went to bed — and got up — earlier.

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  10. Brain

    Full moon shortchanges sleep

    Lab experiments show people’s sleep suffers for a day or so every month.

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  11. Animals

    Dolphins name themselves

    They also answer to those chosen ‘names’

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  12. Fossils

    Tar pit bones yield climate clues

    During the last ice age, more than 12,000 years ago, many unusual creatures wandered Southern California. Some got trapped in tar pits there. Now, their preserved remains are providing scientists with clues about summer weather during that bygone era.

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