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Video: Roboanimals in the lab
- Researchers are creating animatronic organisms to better study the behavior of their organic kin
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Web Gems
- Take a look at the winners of The Scientist's 2010 multimedia awards -- The Labbies!
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Guerilla science
- Science advocates find fertile minds at music festivals
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Natural wonders
- Check out the great drawing and paintings of plants and animals held at London's Natural History Museum
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Surprise breast cancer source
- Some breast cancers may not originate from stem cells as previously believed
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Ants save trees from elephants
- Ants defend certain trees from elephant predation so effectively that they are impacting entire savanna ecosystems
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Why trust a reporter?
- What science writers are looking for and why it behooves you to answer their calls
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Hungry flies ok with less sleep
- There may be certain conditions under which animals can forgo sleep without serious consequences
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Nice bacteria finish last
- A few altruistic bacteria help their neighbors withstand the assaults of antibiotics, even at a cost to themselves
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Touching RNA
- RNA can bind and sense the shapes of other molecules by feeling them with its backbone -- and not just its bases
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Dramatic rise in monkeypox
- Since smallpox was eradicated, another threat has emerged
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Top 7 neuroscience papers
- Check out the hottest research in neuroscience, as ranked by F1000
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Eavesdroppings
- Science quotations of the month
