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Breastfeeding Duration Appears Associated With Intelligence Later in Life
July 29, 2013 — Breastfeeding longer is associated with better receptive language at 3 years of age and verbal and nonverbal intelligence at age 7 years, according to a new ... > full story -
Hot Flashes? Thank Evolution
July 29, 2013 — A study of mortality and fertility patterns among seven species of wild apes and monkeys and their relatives, compared with similar data from hunter-gatherer humans, shows that menopause sets humans ... > full story -
Mini-Monsters of the Forest Floor
July 29, 2013 — A biologist has identified 33 new species of predatory ants in Central America and the Caribbean, and named about a third of the tiny but monstrous-looking insects after ancient Mayan lords and ... > full story -
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Early Exposure to Insecticides Gives Amphibians Higher Tolerance Later
July 29, 2013 — Amphibians exposed to insecticides early in life -- even those not yet hatched -- have a higher tolerance to those same insecticides later in life, according to a recent ... > full story -
Of Bears and Berries: Return of Wolves Aids Grizzly Bears in Yellowstone
July 29, 2013 — A new study suggests that the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park is beginning to bring back a key part of the diet of grizzly bears that has been missing for much of the past century -- ... > full story -
Cockatoos Know What's Going on Behind Barriers
July 29, 2013 — How do you know that the cookies are still there even though they have been placed in a cookie jar out-of-sight? Scientists show that "object permanence" abilities in a cockatoo rivals that of apes ... > full story -
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Virus to Control Potato Moth
July 29, 2013 — New biological insecticides have emerged in recent years which make use of so-called "entomopathogenic" viruses that are harmful to insects, in particular the baculovirus. To identify the virus in ... > full story -
Tuna and Floating Objects: Mysterious Links
July 29, 2013 — More than 2 000 years ago, Roman fishermen already used the natural propensity of some species of fish to gather under floating objects, to enhance their catches in the Mediterranean. Today, numerous ... > full story -
A New Coral Reef Species from the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia
July 26, 2013 — A new shallow water coral species, Echinophyllia tarae sp. n., is described from the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia. Scleractinia, also called stony corals, are exclusively marine animals; they ... > full story -
Rocks Can Restore Our Climate ... After 300,000 Years
July 26, 2013 — A study of a global warming event that happened 93 million years ago suggests that Earth can recover from high carbon dioxide emissions faster than thought, but that this process takes around 300,000 ... > full story
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