| Title |
Type |
Date |
Words |
| Humpback alters song if another one sings along; study may offer a new way to explore tunes' meanings. |
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Nov 7, 2009 |
734 |
| A partnership apart: DNA in hand, scientists dissect and redefine the iconic lichen mutualism. |
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Nov 7, 2009 |
2360 |
| Ants in the pants drive birds away from choice fruit: supercolonies of invasive insects spoil avian picnics. |
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Oct 10, 2009 |
451 |
| Google works on a different web; ranking system inspires algorithm for predicting extinctions. |
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Sep 26, 2009 |
348 |
| Fruity whiffs can mask the scent of carbon dioxide for flies, mosquitoes: study suggests new approach to making insect repellents. |
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Sep 26, 2009 |
490 |
| Forest birds' wings get makeover, courtesy of evolutionary processes: logging, recovery may play role in the degree of pointiness. |
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Sep 12, 2009 |
432 |
| To sing or not to sing. |
Brief article |
Sep 12, 2009 |
85 |
| Doesn't cluck like a chicken. |
Brief article |
Sep 12, 2009 |
65 |
| Traffic moves baritone birds. |
Brief article |
Sep 12, 2009 |
81 |
| Tree keeps vigil for extinct moa; leaves may have defended against big, chomping birds. |
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Sep 12, 2009 |
444 |
| Death-grip fungus made me do it; parasite benefits when host ants bite low-hanging leaves. |
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Aug 29, 2009 |
416 |
| Bent tissue strip gives orchid kick; study dissects how plants hit bees with pollen masses. |
Brief article |
Aug 29, 2009 |
315 |
| Nod-for-me potion. |
Brief article |
Aug 29, 2009 |
134 |
| Phragmites egg each other on. |
Brief article |
Aug 29, 2009 |
104 |
| Bat fungus in Europe. |
Brief article |
Aug 29, 2009 |
121 |
| Bird's distinct bill offers a big chill: study identifies new function for toucan's sizable front end. |
Brief article |
Aug 15, 2009 |
300 |
| First all-American honeybee. |
Brief article |
Aug 15, 2009 |
188 |
| Smart from the start: animal embryos get some respect for their survival skills. |
Cover story |
Aug 15, 2009 |
2269 |
| A turtle's shell isn't so terribly bizarre after all: a critical fold may separate the reptile from its brethren. |
|
Aug 1, 2009 |
931 |
| Climate change offsets evolution to shrink the wild sheep of St. Kilda: more lambs survive milder winters, upping food competition. |
|
Aug 1, 2009 |
525 |
| Accept it: talk about evolution needs to evolve: Eugenie Scott. |
Interview |
Aug 1, 2009 |
767 |
| Growing red hot has its downside: culinary kick carries risks for chili peppers in the wild. |
|
Jul 18, 2009 |
388 |
| Hummingbird pulls Top Gun stunts: for its size, the courting flier dives faster than a fighter jet. |
Brief article |
Jul 4, 2009 |
285 |
| Better singers could have evolved on harsh side of the climate tracks: bird survey links variable environment and elaborate songs. |
|
Jun 20, 2009 |
423 |
| No brainer behavior: messages, memory, maybe even intelligence--botanists wrangle over how far plants can go. |
|
Jun 20, 2009 |
2306 |
| Queen gene controls mob. |
Brief article |
Jun 6, 2009 |
137 |
| Oops, botanists missed that tree: newly found acacia common in Ethiopia's Ogaden region. |
Brief article |
May 23, 2009 |
286 |
| Landscaper's darling hybridizes into an environmental nuisance: variation underlies the Callery pear tree's transformation. |
|
May 9, 2009 |
924 |
| Brash birds get nabbed more often: personality may affect which flycatchers end up in the lab. |
|
May 9, 2009 |
341 |
| Swarm savvy: how bees, ants and other animals avoid dumb collective decisions. |
|
May 9, 2009 |
3270 |
| Hatchlings may add, subtract: results point to built-in numerical understanding. |
Brief article |
Apr 25, 2009 |
282 |
| An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds. |
Book review |
Apr 25, 2009 |
303 |
| Public tantrums defeat monkey mothers, too: bystanders make macaques more likely to give in to baby. |
|
Apr 11, 2009 |
365 |
| Shrinking fish can get big again, but such reversal may take time: study suggests managers should consider fishing's effects. |
|
Mar 28, 2009 |
452 |
| Census goes to the poles. |
Brief article |
Mar 14, 2009 |
159 |
| Serotonin turns loner locusts into swarming, gregarious cereal killers: smells, sights, tickles boost levels of the neurotransmitter. |
|
Feb 28, 2009 |
561 |
| Trees fall faster as air heats up: routine deaths in the West doubled over 50-year span. |
|
Feb 14, 2009 |
420 |
| 8 million 'lost' bats maybe weren't: imaging and algorithms challenge famous Carlsbad estimate. |
Brief article |
Feb 14, 2009 |
333 |
| A most private evolution: dumb designs for sex: evolutionary biology walks on the weird side. |
|
Feb 14, 2009 |
3239 |
| Moth jams bat sonar. |
Brief article |
Jan 31, 2009 |
174 |
| Honeybees may provide plants a protective buzz: pest caterpillars eat less when pollinators zoom by. |
|
Jan 17, 2009 |
501 |
| Dogs strike over unfair treatment: canines are first nonprimates to show aversion to inequity. |
Brief article |
Jan 3, 2009 |
190 |
| Honeybee CSI: why dead bodies can't be found: virus could explain one symptom of colony collapse. |
|
Dec 20, 2008 |
1022 |
| Clothes moths offer forensic clues by building fuzzy, hair-flecked cases; larvae pick up tresses from corpses to make their homes. |
|
Dec 20, 2008 |
387 |
| Cannibals have better babies: female spiders who dine on guys have more, tough young. |
|
Nov 22, 2008 |
472 |
| Not your father's song: the next generation of birds chooses its music. |
|
Nov 8, 2008 |
2530 |
| Giant honeybees skilled at the wave: attacking hornets repelled when colony shimmers en masse. |
|
Oct 11, 2008 |
376 |
| Researchers dig new ant species: bizarre insect suggests ancient underground world. |
|
Oct 11, 2008 |
446 |
| Slave ants rebel. |
Brief article |
Sep 13, 2008 |
129 |
| Smallest known snake. |
Brief article |
Aug 30, 2008 |
129 |
| Bumblebees deliver disease: hitchhiking pathogens threaten wild populations. |
Report |
Aug 16, 2008 |
308 |
| Built for speed: animals would prove fierce competitors at the Olympics--if only they would stay in their lanes. |
Cover story |
Aug 16, 2008 |
2449 |
| Cuttlefish embryos look and learn: before hatching, young acquire interest in crab dinners. |
Brief article |
Aug 2, 2008 |
280 |
| Environment drives fashion sense: lady damselflies aren't just mimicking the male color. |
Brief article |
Jul 19, 2008 |
188 |
| Chimp noises suit audience: females' sex sounds depend on eavesdroppers. |
Brief article |
Jul 19, 2008 |
317 |
| Trees avoid Goldilocks' troubles: leaves sweat, huddle to keep temperatures favorable. |
Brief article |
Jul 5, 2008 |
239 |
| How they shine: iridescence could be pretty meaningful--or maybe just pretty. |
|
Jun 7, 2008 |
1748 |
| Screaming bats make big noise: high-frequency sounds louder than fire alarms. |
Brief article |
May 24, 2008 |
162 |
| Beetles portend crisis in Canada: outbreak counters forest's ability to capture carbon. |
|
May 10, 2008 |
379 |
| Out of thin air: scientists pursue nitrogen fixers with an aim to harness their secrets--and feed the world. |
|
Apr 12, 2008 |
2291 |
| Robin stole credit for Batman's deeds. |
Brief article |
Apr 12, 2008 |
266 |
| Night flights: migrating moths may use a nighttime compass. |
|
Apr 5, 2008 |
462 |
| High C[O.sub.2]--a gourmet boon for crop pest. |
Brief article |
Apr 5, 2008 |
251 |
| Farm girl has the chops. |
Brief article |
Mar 29, 2008 |
136 |
| Finch concerts: female bird brain notes male attention. |
|
Mar 22, 2008 |
430 |
| New drugs tackle difficult nematodes. |
Brief article |
Mar 22, 2008 |
272 |
| Gator aids: gators squish lungs around to dive and roll. |
|
Mar 15, 2008 |
436 |
| The next ocean: humanity's extra C[O.sub.2] could brew a new kind of sea. |
|
Mar 15, 2008 |
2462 |
| City life changes style of weed seeds. |
Brief article |
Mar 15, 2008 |
200 |
| Encyclopedia of Life starts online--at times. |
Brief article |
Mar 8, 2008 |
195 |
| Hidden depths: Antarctic krill startle deep-ocean scientists. |
|
Mar 1, 2008 |
469 |
| New dating finds oldest coral yet. |
Brief article |
Mar 1, 2008 |
249 |
| People bring both risk and reward to chimps. |
Brief article |
Feb 23, 2008 |
247 |
| Don't like it hot. |
Brief article |
Feb 16, 2008 |
131 |
| Bird fads weaken sexual selection. |
Brief article |
Feb 16, 2008 |
244 |
| The naming of the elephant-shrew. |
Brief article |
Feb 2, 2008 |
128 |
| Biological moon shot: realizing the dream of a Web page for every living thing. |
|
Feb 2, 2008 |
2086 |
| Very brown sheep have a dark side. |
Brief article |
Feb 2, 2008 |
251 |
| Big foot: eco-footprints of rich dwarf poor nations' debt. |
|
Jan 26, 2008 |
492 |
| Fenced-off trees drop their friends. |
Brief article |
Jan 26, 2008 |
244 |
| Butterfly's clock linked to compass. |
|
Jan 19, 2008 |
245 |
| Seeing again: blind fish parents have fry that see. |
|
Jan 12, 2008 |
501 |
| Purring birds teach their chicks to beg. |
Brief article |
Jan 12, 2008 |
244 |
| Not so spineless: behaviors we expect from animals--but quirks and personalities? Studies of spiders and insects say maybe. |
|
Jan 5, 2008 |
2001 |
| Hey, what about us? there's more life on ice than celebrity bears. |
Cover story |
Dec 1, 2007 |
2317 |
| It takes a village: tweaking neighbors reroutes evolution. |
|
Nov 24, 2007 |
458 |
| Cousin who? Gliding mammals may be primates' nearest kin. |
|
Nov 3, 2007 |
438 |
| Not just hitchhikers: human pathogens make homes on plants. |
Cover story |
Oct 20, 2007 |
1900 |
| Same pathogens people and plants: some bacteria can cross the line. |
|
Oct 20, 2007 |
505 |
| Eat a killer: snake dines safely with strategic delays. |
|
Oct 13, 2007 |
555 |
| Stalking the green meat eaters: why ecologists love these toothless predators. |
|
Oct 6, 2007 |
1994 |
| Rethinking bad taste: how much mimicry is outright cheating? |
|
Sep 1, 2007 |
1911 |
| Not-so-elementary bee mystery: detectives sift clues in the case of the missing insects. |
|
Jul 28, 2007 |
2305 |
| Profiles in courtship: flirting male fish show their best sides. |
|
Jun 23, 2007 |
429 |
| Easy there, bro: a plant can spot and favor close kin. |
|
Jun 16, 2007 |
483 |
| Wildfire, walleyes and wine: latest predictions for life in North America's changing climate. |
|
Jun 16, 2007 |
2264 |
| Egg shell game: chicks' sex isn't just a matter of chance. |
Cover story |
May 12, 2007 |
2404 |
| Living fossil: DNA puts rodent in family that's not extinct after all. |
|
Apr 28, 2007 |
509 |
| Rare flower needs prickly neighbors. |
|
Apr 7, 2007 |
194 |
| Kill-save gene combo might fight malaria. |
|
Apr 7, 2007 |
270 |
