A lesson in FEAR.

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PhysOrg reveals the anatomy of terror… in zebrafish: A new study on the behavior of the zebrafish by Japanese researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science […]

Seal scientists.

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Science News reports on an Antarctic project that’s been hiring a crew of oceanographers who *really* feel at home in the water: Seals, walruses, whales […]

Jellyfish engines.

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U.S. News & World Report gets deep, looking at ways to make submarines swim like jellyfish: Jellyfish create doughnut-shaped currents of rotating water when they […]

Garage science.

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Not like engineering better automatic doors. Like garage bands. Nature welcomes a generation of DIY researchers: Stories in the press are often peppered with sweeping […]

Drinking for two now.

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I’ve often suspected what Discovery News has confirmed: that it’s probably not so bad for an unborn baby to have a mother who enjoys a […]

Atomic cars.

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Finally. The good folks at Discovery News give us some hope we’ll be able to drive around with uranium fuel: Scientists from the Los Alamos […]

Nobel-winning goof-offs.

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In case you missed it this morning, NPR had a story about graphene, the single-atom-thin form of carbon that won its inventors a Nobel prize… […]

Red Super-penguin

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io9.com explores the prehistoric majesty of the man-sized super-penguin: The fossil was discovered in Peru and has been classified as Inkayacu paracasensis, but its less […]

Street View: Antarctica

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Dude! I *know* that… uh… ice cliff…. Guardian takes a look at Google Street View’s mission to the southernmost continent: Brian McClendon, vice-president of engineering […]