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Symbiotic Bacteria Serve as Hydrogen “Fuel Cells” for Deep-Sea Mussels
Lab-Grown Human Cells Could Replace Animals For Cosmetics Testing
Things We Can Learn From Dolphins: Electro-Sensing, Amazing Powers of Healing
UK Researchers Urge Rules Governing Creation and Use of Human-Animal Hybrids
Some Mice Have Become Immune to Poison Through Natural but Highly Unusual Evolution
Spiders Fleeing Pakistan’s Floodwater Take to the Trees
Humans Might Be Able to See the Earth’s Magnetic Field, Like Birds Do
Stem-Cell Therapy Works Wonders for Race Horses; Are Human Treatments Next?
Slow-Motion X-Ray Video Reveals the Slurpy Mechanics of Dogs’ Drinking
The Top 10 New Species of 2011
2011 Invention Awards: Sniffing Out Bedbugs
How Darpa’s Tiny Robotic Hummingbird Hovers and Films
New Tougher Bedbugs Are Harder Than Ever to Kill
Divers Attempt to Communicate With Wild Dolphins, Using A Two-Way Translation Device
Things Fire Ants Behave Like: Gore-Tex, a Liquid, a Woven Material, and a Waterproof Raft
Bee Hackers Help Hives With Unconventional Tools
Man’s Best Friend Gets a High-Tech Home
Bats Out of Hell: Rescue Efforts for Some of the Smallest Victims of Australia’s Floods
New Scanner Tracks Zebras’ Built-In Bar Codes
Genetically Modified Cows Produce Milk Akin To Human Milk
Baby Chicks Reject Escher-esque Impossible Shapes
Video: Seagull Robot Takes Off And Flies On Its Own, Just Like the Real Thing
Video: 3-D-Printed Ornithopter Insect Hovers, Flapping Delicate Wings
Meet Japan’s Earthquake Search-and-Rescue Robots
Video: Creepy Madagascan Beasts Rub Their Back Hairs Together To Make Squeaks
Woodpeckers’ Heads Inspire New Shock-Absorbing Systems for Electronics and Humans
Water Flea Genome is the Most Complex Yet, and May Help Scientists Study Organisms’ Response to Stress
Bat Ears Could Inspire New Sensing Technology For Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
Japanese Researchers Announce Plan to Resurrect Woolly Mammoth Within Five Years
Injured Brazilian Wolf Is First Wild Animal Treated With Stem Cells
Foxes Use Earth’s Magnetic Field To Hunt Prey, Scientists Say
Frogs in Peril: A Race to Save a Threatened Frog With Risky Experimental Techniques
What Cataclysm Killed the Birds in Arkansas (and Louisiana, and Sweden)? Maybe None
Giant Rats Can Detect Tuberculosis With Greater Accuracy than a Microscope Test
Five Hundred More Dead Birds in Louisiana Further Puzzle Investigators
Video: Smartest Dog Ever Can Pick Out 1,022 Toys By Name
Video: Elephant-Trunk-Inspired Robot Arm Grabs With Sensitivity
Twelve Extreme Animal Modifications in the Name of Science
Scientists Discover Self-Cloning Lizard Species On Vietnamese Restaurant Menu
TED Talk: Laser Control of Headless Fruit Flies Uncovers Secrets of the Mind
Is Your Dinner Endangered? DNA Detectives Investigate
Bat Research Inspires Disciplines Far Beyond Biology
Increasing Wind Turbine Turn-On Speeds Could Help Reduce Bat Deaths, New Study Says
Can Technology Help Biologists Save Bats from Extinction?
Bat Conference, Day 1: Students Rush To Front Lines In Battle to Save Bats
Bees Solve Hard Computing Problems Faster Than Supercomputers
Video: Chinese Vending Machine Sells Live Hairy Crabs
GPS Chips Installed in Endangered Rhinos’ Horns To Combat Poaching
Humpback Whale Makes The Longest Documented Mammal Journey With a 6,200-Mile Swim
This Picture of a Mosquito Heart Is The Year’s Best Microphotograph
How Modified Worms and Goats Can Mass-Produce Nature’s Toughest Fiber
First Complete Census of Marine Life Catalogs Yeti Crab, Darth Vader Jelly, and 6,000 More
Enviropig: A Bioengineered Pig That Excretes Fewer Pollutants
This Week, FDA Considers Genetically Engineered Salmon for Human Consumption
Dog Poo Powers a Streetlight In Massachusetts Park
Bio-Scaffold Regenerates Rabbit Joints In Vivo While the Rabbits Run
How Pharmaceutical Companies Turn Genetically Modified Livestock Into Drug Factories
Mouse Grimace Scale Measures the Agony of Lab Animals
Great White Sharks Text Their Whereabouts, For Science and Swimmer Safety
London Builds an Insect Hotel to Keep Helpful Bugs in Residence
German Airports Using “Biodetective” Honeybees To Monitor Air Quality
British Amputee Cat First to Get Bone-Grafted Exoprosthetic Paws
Can Physicians Who Work on Humans Treat Animals Too?
Early-Adopting Dolphin Uses iPad Touchscreen to Communicate with Humans