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- 1From:National Geographic (Vol. 241, Issue 4)HAVE YOU EVER had a dream so vivid that you nearly mistook it for real life? What if you actually did open your eyes to a world you'd envisioned with them closed? According to a Yale University study, you may have--at...
- 2From:Smithsonian (Vol. 51, Issue 9)The "Snow Monkey Express" was almost empty when 1 rode with a few other tourists from Nagano to the last stop in Yamanouchi. a town of 12,400. A banner welcomed us to the "Snow Monkey Town." and signs in the station...
- 3From:Feedstuffs (Vol. 91, Issue 1)GENETIC companies are doing their job and creating maternal lines that produce more live pigs. This is an amazing advancement, yet it puts incredible pressure on sows to produce enough nutrition to raise all of these...
- 4From:Natural History (Vol. 126, Issue 6)The survival of a heavily hunted species should select for fast reproduction and accelerated life histories. But when hunting regulations protect female reproductive status, other patterns of selectivity may evolve. In...
- 5From:DVM 360 (Vol. 48, Issue 12)Without cold, hard lab numbers and clear scientific proof, diagnosing neurologic conditions in your patients can be tough to describe, and without owner buy-in, they can be tough to treat. However, a recent review...
- 6From:Natural History (Vol. 124, Issue 5)The adult white-thighed colobus monkey, Colobus vellerosus, is a medium-sized, tree-dwelling primate with a distinct black-and-white coat. Infants, however, are born snow-white and transition to a gray coat before...
- 7From:Science News (Vol. 189, Issue 11)A baby titanosaur looked a lot like a grown-up--and it probably acted like one, too. The (relatively) tiny fossils of a roughly 1- to 2-month-old dinosaur, Rapetosaurus krausei, discovered in what is now Madagascar,...
- 8From:Science News (Vol. 188, Issue 3)Newborn seahorses look like their parents. They deliver beyond-fast strikes at prey. And their tails end with a miniature up-curl like a grown-up's prehensile marvel. But they're babies, and they bumble. That's the...
- 9From:Esquire (Vol. 151, Issue 4)ESQUIRE'S ANSWER FELLA believes that there are no stupid questions, just stupid people who don't ask questions, fearing they'll look stupid. So ask Answer Fella anything, If he doesn't know the answer, he'll find out...
- 10From:USA Today (Vol. 143, Issue 2841)The first three-dimensional images of a live embryo turning itself inside out have been captured by researchers from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). The images--of embryos of a green alga called...
- 11From:DVM Newsmagazine (Vol. 41, Issue 12)RALEIGH, N.C. -- Fluorescent fish are in the spotlight at North Carolina State University as researchers investigate the early periods of animal development. Specifically, investigators are targeting a gene, Sp2, which...
- 12From:The Economist (Vol. 409, Issue 8867)How fast did it really grow? An enthusiastic amateur suggests work on how dinosaurs grew is wrong HOW fast dinosaurs grew up may not sound a subject that matters much to the modern world. But perhaps it does, for...
- 13From:Women's Health WeeklyResearch findings, "The short estrous cycle of mice may influence the effect of BRCA1 mutations," are discussed in a new report. According to the authors of recent research from Kagoshima, Japan, "Breast and ovarian...
- 14From:Science News (Vol. 177, Issue 5)If dad's a dud, morn may make it up to the kids with an extra shot of protein. Female broad-nosed pipefish enhance their eggs with more protein--a boost of some 11 percent--when paired with an undersized mate rather...
- 15From:Science News (Vol. 176, Issue 3)Turtles maybe weird, but according to new research, they're not that weird. Their funny arrangement of shell and shoulder is just the same old land-dweller vertebrate stuff--with a little fold. Early on, a turtle...
- 16From:The Economist (Vol. 413, Issue 8915)Humans may soon have to look to their laurels as the planet's dominant species. Turkeys, heretofore harmless, have been exploding in size, swelling from an average 13.2lb (6kg) in 1929 to over 30lb today. On the fairly...
- 17From:Feedstuffs (Vol. 80, Issue 2)TARGETED heifer growth has been espoused by several parties (Van Amburgh and Meyer, 2005; Hoffman, 2007; BANM, 2007). The essence of this approach is that there are genotypic and phenotypic aspects that impact mature...
- 18From:National Wildlife (Vol. 35, Issue 4)The small size and fast metabolism of human children and young animals make them especially susceptible to the harmful effects of environmental pollutants. Research indicates that toxics affect the physical development,...
- 19From:Geographical (Vol. 86, Issue 6)Puerto Rico's national animal, the coqui frog, has undergone a series of small but significant changes due to the warming of the territory's climate over the past three decades, according to a new study by two...
- 20From:Science News (Vol. 188, Issue 7)Scientists have long puzzled over why tropical songbirds lay fewer eggs than their temperate-zone counterparts. A new study suggests that it may have to do with how baby birds grow. Thomas Martin of the University of...