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How can satellites help biologists understand animals’ response to climate change?
How does a cheetah posse behave? How do they reunite after long separations?
A scientist, inspired by her blanket-licking cat, is developing soft robotics based on cat tongue physics.
Could a gooey cornstarch mixture popular with preschoolers have stopped the oil from gushing into the Gulf?
Can scientists create technology to mimic woodpeckers' shock-absorbing heads?
The 2010 earthquake in Chile may not have decreased, but actually increased, the likeliness of a new, large earthquake.
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a distant galaxy, 13.2 billion years in the past.
Online science news outlets couldn’t get enough dinosaur stories this week. But really, who can?
Scientists are finding ways to control a worm's movement and behavior-- with lasers!
Researchers, using the Academy's collections, have discovered when avian pox arrived on the Galapagos Islands.
Massive Die-Offs, Oil and DNA Sequencing: 2011 started off with a bang—science news-wise.