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The Northernmost Dish In The World: Tracking Satellites and Dodging Polar Bears
This Newly Discovered Frog Is the World’s Smallest Vertebrate
Cyborg Insects Could be Powered by the Bugs’ Own Digestion
Monkey Embryo Mashup Results In First Primate Chimeras
Male Wolf Spiders Swipe Other Males’ Dance Moves
Video: Groombot Brushes Cat, Ushering in a New Era of Remote Robo-Petting
Video: Swiss Jumpglider Bot Leaps Into Flight, Inspired by Insects and Bats
FaceTime for Apes: Orangutans Use iPads to Video Chat With Friends In Other Zoos
PopSci BatSci: Biologists Use Old Weather Data to Track Bat Signals
Video: A Water-Propelled ‘Dolphin Jetpack’
Video: Rats Choose to Liberate Their Jailed Pals, A Sign of Empathy Among Non-Primate Mammals
A Nuclear Plant’s Cooling Canals Help Save Endangered Florida Crocodiles
Video: A Yeti Crab That Grows Its Bacterial Meals on Its Own Body
Look at This Giant Bug!
In First Clinical Trial, Unemployed Rattlesnakes Find Work as Cancer-Fighters
Sleek Urban Hive Lets You Keep Bees in the Comfort of Your Apartment
Albino Robot Spider Clambers Through Dangerous Spots on 8 Legs
Robotic Venus Flytraps Will Trap Bugs and Eat Them For Fuel
Nearly All Vertebrates, Including Us, Descended From a Creature With An Electromagnetic Sixth Sense
Did an Ancient Kraken Create Its Own Friends? What About a Modern Jellyfish?
Can Animals Really Be Gay?
Bats Have Unique Superfast Squeak Muscles to Make Superfast Echolocation Calls
Scientists Successfully Induce Hibernation in Animals for the First Time
Approved for Use: the First Birth Control for Wildlife
The Future of Skin
Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation
Glow-In-The-Dark Cats Could Provide Answers About AIDS
Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials
Scientists Who Cloned Dolly the Sheep Plan to Clone Endangered Scottish Wildcats Using Eggs From Spayed Pets
Animals at the National Zoo React to D.C. Earthquake
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