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Tick tock goes the biological clock
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Science has known for decades that biological clocks govern the behavior of everything from humans to lowly bread mold.
A long distance calling
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Sonia Altizer’s interest in butterflies and parasites began when she received a microscope and grow-your-own-butterfly kit at the age of 12.
How do I love me?
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A brush with a narcissist’s inflated ego often leaves one reeling with resentment.
Antibiotic resistance in poultry
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A surprising finding by a team of University of Georgia scientists suggests that curbing the use of antibiotics on poultry farms will do little – if anything – to reduce rates of antibiotic resistant bacteria that have the potential to threaten human health.
No thanks to dinosaur-killing asteroid for mammalian success
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It is a natural history tale that every third grader knows: The dinosaurs ruled the Earth for hundreds of millions of years, until an asteroid struck the Yucatan Peninsula and triggered a mass extinction that allowed the ancestors of today’s mammals to thrive.
Tiny Motors
A team of physicists from the University of Georgia has demonstrated for the first time a new technique to create tiny “natural motors” that could lead to new methods of drug delivery, disease treatment and bioengineering.