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• Diet and Weight Loss
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  Overweight Begins in the Womb: Lifestyle of Mother Shapes Disposition for Subsequent Weight

  January 10, 2013 — A disposition for overweight is shaped even before birth, according to new research. The study reveals that children with a birth weight of more than 4,000 grams are twice as much at risk of becoming ... > full story
• Wild Animals
  Behavioral Science
  Animals
  Life Sciences
  Extinction
  New Species
   
  

  Banded Mongooses Structure Monosyllabic Sounds in a Similar Way to Humans

  January 10, 2013 — Animals are more eloquent than previously assumed. Even the monosyllabic call of the banded mongoose is structured and thus comparable with the vowel and consonant system of human speech. Behavioral ... > full story
• Hearing Loss
  Hair Loss
  Hearing Impairment
  Stem Cells
  Diseases and Conditions
  Biology
   
  

  Sensory Hair Cells Regenerated, Hearing Restored in Noise-Damaged Mammal Ear

  January 9, 2013 — Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that hair cells can be regenerated in an adult mammalian ear by using a drug to stimulate resident cells to become new hair cells, resulting in ... > full story
• Agriculture and Food
  Endangered Plants
  Nature
  Botany
  Biology
  Mathematics
   

  How Does Your Garden Glow?

  January 9, 2013 — Nature’s ability to create iridescent flowers has been recreated by mathematicians. They have created a mathematical model of a plant’s petals to help us learn more about iridescence in ... > full story
• Dolphins and Whales
  Marine Biology
  Wild Animals
  Animals
  Sea Life
  Fish
   

  Whales' Foraging Strategies Revealed by New Technology

  January 9, 2013 — Despite the many logistical difficulties of studying large whales, multisensor tags attached to the animals with suction cups are revealing their varied foraging techniques in unprecedented detail. ... > full story
• Bacteria
  Seeds
  Insects (including Butterflies)
  Trees
  Microbes and More
  Agriculture and Food
   
  

  Bugs Need Symbiotic Bacteria to Exploit Plant Seeds: Mid-Gut Microbes Help Insects in Processing Their Food

  January 9, 2013 — Aggregations of the red and black coloured firebugs are ubiquitous under linden trees in Central Europe, where the bugs can reach astounding population densities. While these insects have no impact ... > full story
• Global Warming
  Ice Ages
  New Species
  Climate
  Energy and the Environment
  Geography
   
  

  Newly Discovered Emperor Penguin Colony Receives First Human Visitors

  January 9, 2013 — Three team members from Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station are the first humans to have ever visited and photographed a newly-discovered 9,000-strong colony of emperor ... > full story
• Fossils
  Soil Types
  Nature
  Dinosaurs
  Endangered Plants
  Climate
   
  

  Jurassic Ecosystems Were Similar to Modern: Animals Flourish Among Lush Plants

  January 8, 2013 — In modern ecosystems, animals flourish amid lush vegetation. That was true 150 million years ago too, says a new study by paleontologists. They applied ecological principles to geochemical data from ... > full story
• Frogs and Reptiles
  Nature
  Global Warming
  Animals
  Climate
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  Global Warming Beneficial to Ratsnakes

  January 8, 2013 — Speculation about how animals will respond to climate change due to global warming led researchers to conduct a study of ratsnakes at three different latitudes -- Ontario, Illinois, and Texas. His ... > full story
• Frogs and Reptiles
  New Species
  Endangered Animals
  Mating and Breeding
  Nature
  Extinction
   
  

  Genetic Matchmaking Saves Endangered Frogs

  January 8, 2013 — What if Noah got it wrong? What if he paired a male and a female animal thinking they were the same species, and then discovered they were not the same and could not produce offspring? As researchers ... > full story

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