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Monthly Archives: January 2013

Bird flu research back on

January 24, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

A little over year ago, influenza researchers called a moratorium on their work involving H5N1, otherwise known as bird flu. Ordinarily, we can’t contract the disease from birds, so the […]

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Health, Medicine, Science News

Chicago the biggest killer of migratory birds

January 23, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

We’ve got to face facts: We live within a killing machine. According to a piece posted on Grist this week, our skyline kills more birds every year than any other […]

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Animals, Ecology, Science in Chicago, Science News

End could be in sight for experimental chimps

January 23, 2013by Lindsey Reiser 1 Comment

Sometime in the near future, all 451 chimpanzees now owned or being used in labs for the National Institutes of Health may be moved to sanctuaries. It’s a big step […]

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Animals, Health, Science News

The everlasting eggstopper

January 22, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

If you ever celebrated Easter with an egg hunt, you’d expect those colorful plastic eggs to hold some kind of surprise. It could be some quarters, it could be a […]

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Animals, Weird Science

Bad news for crustacean lovers

January 22, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

There’s nothing more succulent than fresh crab or lobster straight out of the shell. And if you’re a pescetarian like me, you may have comforted yourself by saying, “It’s okay […]

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Animals, Science News

One rockin’ spider

January 21, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

It turns out California is an Eden of biodiversity for spiders. Director of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History and taxonomist Jason Bond has identified 33 new species in […]

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Animals, Ecology, Science News

Take that, double helix

January 21, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Sure, two strands of DNA are pretty impressive, but what about four strands? Scientists at Cambridge University found that not only does it exist, it exists in functioning human cells. […]

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Chemistry, Medicine, Science News

The Mona Lisa goes to space

January 18, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Not really, just a copy of her. NASA is experimenting with laser communication to space, which, once mastered, will be a more reliable way of communicating across larger distances throughout […]

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Science News, Space, Technology

Frightening changes for elephants’ population dynamics

January 18, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

In storied reserves like Kenya’s Amboseli National Park or South Africa’s Kruger National Park, elephant populations have been studied for decades. But reserves Samburu and Buffalo Springs in Kenya are just […]

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Animals, Ecology, Science News

Cornell puts together one impressive library

January 17, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

A warning to biology nerds everywhere: Prepare for all your work ethic today to evaporate. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has put together the Macaulay Library, an exhaustive collection of […]

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Animals, Ecology, Nature, Science News

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