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Furry math: macaques can do sums like people in a hurry
Monkey see, monkey add. And in the same test of high-speed arithmetic, it turns out, people see and people add using what looks like the monkey...
Science News, 12/22/07 by S. Milius · More from publication -
Hatch a thief: brains incline birds toward a life of crime
It's not brawn but brains that matter in the rise of crime families among birds. It's not brawn but brains that matter in the rise of crime...
Science News, 12/15/07 by S. Milius · More from publication -
Chimp champ: ape aces memory test, outscores people
OK, humanity: time to pull up our socks. In a test of rapid number recollection, college students were resoundingly outperformed by a young...
Science News, 12/08/07 by S. Milius · More from publication -
So sproutish: anti-aging gene for plants gives drought protection
A gene for simulating youth in plants offers an unusual approach to protecting crops from drought, says an international research team. A gene...
Science News, 12/01/07 by S. Milius · More from publication -
Tough frills: ferns' wimp stage aces survival test
A textbook truism about the poor ferns being held back by a weak link in their life cycle may not be so true after all. A textbook truism about...
Science News, 11/17/07 by S. Milius · More from publication -
Mr. not wrong: not my species? Not a problem
Female toads that flirt with a male of another species may have their own best interests at heart. Female toads that flirt with a male of another...
Science News, 11/10/07 by S. Milius · More from publication -
Smells funny: fish schools break up over body odor
Just an hour's swim in water lightly contaminated with a common pollutant can turn fish into rejects with an odor that causes their untainted...
Science News, 10/27/07 by S. Milius · More from publication -
Bad acid: ocean's pH drop threatens snail defense
A predicted worldwide fall in ocean alkalinity could have subtle effects on a small shoreline snail, shutting down one of its best defenses against...
Science News, 10/20/07 by S. Milius · More from publication -
Crowcam: camera on bird's tail captures bird ingenuity
Biologists studying tool use in a tropical crow species have fastened tiny video cameras to the birds and recorded their search for food....
Science News, 10/06/07 by S. Milius · More from publication -
Jungle down there: what's a kelp forest doing in the tropics?
Biologists say that they've found dense, underwater forests of kelp, a cold-water lover, off the tropical Galapagos Islands. Biologists say that...
Science News, 09/29/07 by S. Milius · More from publication
