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Smelling the scenery in stereo: Desert ants perceive odour maps in stereo and use this... 
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Scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have investigated another navigational skill of desert ants.
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Do You Teach Your Kids About Darwin? (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
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We homeschoolers often get a bum rap for trying to insulate our kids from evolutionary theory. But it’s just as likely that your public school student has never heard of the
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Did 'midwife molecule' assemble first life on Earth?
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The earliest life forms are thought by many to have been based not on DNA but on the closely related molecule RNA, because long strands of RNA can act as rudimentary enzymes.
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New way to control disease-spreading mosquitoes: Make them hold their urine
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Cornell researchers have found a protein that may lead to a new way to control mosquitoes that spread dengue fever, yellow fever and other diseases when they feed on humans:
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Humans can run as fast as 65 km/hr!
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Human running speeds of 35 to 40 mph may be biologically possible, concludes a new study. Such a feat would leave in the dust the world's fastest runner, Usain Bolt, who has
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Women with good genes may have more sexual partners
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Magazine issue 2750. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. For similar stories, visit the Genetics and Love and Sex Topic Guides GENES behind the immune system may explain why some
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Sonic hedgehog gene found in an unexpected place during limb development
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2010) — Sonic hedgehog, a gene that plays a crucial rule in the positioning and growth of limbs, fingers and toes, has been confirmed in an unexpected place
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Exercise counters negative effects of weight regain, researchers find
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2010) — With the obesity rate rising for American adults and children, health concerns such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease are a frequent reality.
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