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Physics secrets of giant soap bubbles


Dogs process numerical quantities


Skeletal shapes key to object recognition



When children start to cultivate an image


How tiny tools made us human



The plant hunters
 


The physics of a glacial 'slushy'


Malawi yields oldest-known DNA from Africa



Stone Age hand axe shaped by complex brain



Rolling DNA motor speeds up nano-walkers



Ramanujan, math and movie stars


What is a psychopath?



In Madagascar, an ecosystem in crisis

 
The psychology of screams

 

What is your dog thinking?



Drunken fruit flies use alcohol as a drug



A new era for organic chemistry  


Chemists reveal the force within you



Polar dinosaur tracks open new trail to past



A wild view of apes of the planet



Buried alive to vertigo: Our spatial fears



Walk in the woods leads to math 'Eureka!'



New theories reveal the nature of numbers



Math's in your blood: Flow with it



How Stone Age tool-making shaped our brains


 

How monarch butterflies treat diseases


 

Strange but true: Lemurs live on a Georgia island


 

What's it like to fall 40 feet down a sheer cliff face?


 

Plants hold secrets to solar fuel



Monks + scientists = new body of thought


 

Ants invented agriculture 50 million years ago


 

These valuable research minds are only a few months old



See the border between states of matter, for the first time


 

Why do we stare at disfigurement?



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