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August 31, 2015
The taming of the pig took some wild turns
ScienceNOW - 11:00
Oldest known species of sea scorpion unearthed
ScienceNOW - 8:15
Scientists find oldest known species of sea scorpion
ScienceNOW - 8:15
PubPeer’s secret is out: Anonymous founder of controversial website reveals himself
ScienceNOW - 7:15
PubPeer’s secret is out: Founder of controversial website reveals himself
ScienceNOW - 7:15
Nearly every seabird may be eating plastic by 2050
ScienceNOW - 3:00
August 30, 2015
Tiny ant takes on pesticide industry
ScienceNOW - 8:15
August 28, 2015
Women associate money with love, men link it to freedom
ScienceNOW - 12:00
Karolinska Institute clears trachea surgeon of misconduct charges
ScienceNOW - 6:00
Update: Karolinska Institute clears trachea surgeon of misconduct charges
ScienceNOW - 6:00
How termite mounds ‘breathe’
ScienceNOW - 4:45
Massive volcanoes began erupting hundreds of thousands of years before Earth’s largest extinction
ScienceNOW - 2:00
Ants have group-level personalities, study shows
ScienceNOW - 1:45
August 27, 2015
Death of beloved polar bear, Knut, solved
ScienceNOW - 9:00
Podcast: A debunked dragon, progress toward a universal flu vaccine, and more
ScienceNOW - 4:00
Piling it even higher and deeper: Grad school woes earn film sequel
ScienceNOW - 2:00
Feature: Why big societies need big gods
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Feature: Turning history into a binary code
ScienceNOW - 2:00
August 26, 2015
Fighting wildlife smuggling, one DNA test at a time
ScienceNOW - 12:00
African wildlife harbors resistance to first-line antibiotics
ScienceNOW - 2:45
Plugged pores may cause dementia, other neurological diseases
ScienceNOW - 1:00
Crayfish create a new species of female ‘superclones’
ScienceNOW - 1:00
August 25, 2015
Death metal in ancient oceans
ScienceNOW - 11:00
What the microbes in your home say about you
ScienceNOW - 7:15
Orchids’ dazzling diversity explained
ScienceNOW - 7:15
In brief, papers with shorter titles get more citations, study suggests
ScienceNOW - 7:15
August 24, 2015
How does the new ‘female Viagra’ work?
ScienceNOW - 4:45
Q&A: How the Franco dictatorship destroyed Spanish science
ScienceNOW - 3:00
Is a universal flu vaccine on the horizon?
ScienceNOW - 1:15
August 21, 2015
The cancer therapy breakthrough that gives President Carter hope
ScienceNOW - 4:30
August 20, 2015
Threats impacting forest health
ScienceNOW - 2:15
Special issue: Forest health in a changing world
ScienceNOW - 2:00
Feature: Revealing the hidden dangers of dietary supplements
ScienceNOW - 2:00
‘Superpredator’ humans are hunting other animals out of existence
ScienceNOW - 2:00
August 19, 2015
A carbon capture strategy that pays
ScienceNOW - 5:00
Identifying the gene switch that turns fat cells bad
ScienceNOW - 5:00
‘Vomit machine’ shows that norovirus can go airborne
ScienceNOW - 2:00
Stiff breast tissue in obese women may raise cancer risk
ScienceNOW - 2:00
China's carbon emissions may be 13% lower than estimated
ScienceNOW - 1:15
China’s carbon emissions may be 13% lower than estimated
ScienceNOW - 1:15
August 18, 2015
Has biomedical research on chimpanzees come to an end?
ScienceNOW - 11:30
Has U.S. biomedical research on chimpanzees come to an end?
ScienceNOW - 11:30
How do you weigh an animal that is no more?
ScienceNOW - 7:15
Gut microbes linked to eye disease
ScienceNOW - 2:15
August 17, 2015
Scientists protest Scotland’s ban of GM crops
ScienceNOW - 7:15
Lobbyists seek $250 million in new funds for chronic fatigue syndrome research
ScienceNOW - 6:15
Lobbyists seek new funds for chronic fatigue syndrome research
ScienceNOW - 6:15
World’s first flowers may have come from fresh water
ScienceNOW - 5:15
A for effort, C for impact from U.S. biomedical research, study concludes
ScienceNOW - 3:15
Archaeologists uncover a Neolithic massacre in early Europe
ScienceNOW - 3:00
Whistled Turkish tickles both sides of the brain
ScienceNOW - 1:15
August 14, 2015
‘Milestone ages’ may trigger new perspectives on life
ScienceNOW - 5:00
Sea otters falling prey to great white sharks
ScienceNOW - 3:15
August 13, 2015
Group defends controversial 'exercise hormone'
ScienceNOW - 12:00
World food supply at growing risk from severe weather
ScienceNOW - 7:15
Powerful painkillers can now be made by genetically modified yeast—are illegal drugs next?
ScienceNOW - 2:00
Video: How marmoset babies learn to talk
ScienceNOW - 2:00
August 12, 2015
Animal advocacy group targets cat and dog research using novel crowdsourcing campaign
ScienceNOW - 9:45
No sexual cannibalism for these octopuses
ScienceNOW - 2:30
Octopus genome surprises and teases
ScienceNOW - 1:00
August 11, 2015
Video: A 3D tour of the central nervous system
ScienceNOW - 12:15
Meat-eaters may speed worldwide species extinction, study warns
ScienceNOW - 6:15
Antlike robots might help explain origins of cooperation
ScienceNOW - 2:15
August 10, 2015
Ozone pollution becoming a global, rather than local, problem
ScienceNOW - 11:00
Widespread butterfly extinctions could hit the U.K. as early as 2050
ScienceNOW - 2:00
August 07, 2015
Butterflies drug ants, turn them into bodyguards
ScienceNOW - 11:15
New interactive map shows where the world’s ants are
ScienceNOW - 11:00
Q&A: Ecologists fear new Suez Canal plays ‘Russian roulette’ with the Mediterranean
ScienceNOW - 5:00
Q&A: Outgoing HHMI chief reflects on leading $18 billion biomedical charity
ScienceNOW - 4:30
Q&A: Outgoing HHMI chief reflects on leading $19 billion biomedical charity
ScienceNOW - 4:30
Alzheimer’s data dispute gets even more tangled
ScienceNOW - 3:30
Video: Predator or prey? The eyes have it
ScienceNOW - 2:30
Voting bias taps into ‘caveman’ instincts
ScienceNOW - 2:00
Slideshow: Glowing predators of the deep
ScienceNOW - 1:30
August 06, 2015
Chemical treatment transforms skin cells into neurons
ScienceNOW - 12:30
Amid agony, scientists discover world’s first venomous frog
ScienceNOW - 12:00
U.S. neutrino experiment's first result tantalizes
ScienceNOW - 3:00
Why the Nepal earthquake was far less damaging than feared
ScienceNOW - 2:00
August 05, 2015
Tapeworms may be good for your brain
ScienceNOW - 9:30
Wasps force zombie spiders to weave ‘cocoon’ webs
ScienceNOW - 6:15
Blood of high-altitude snow leopards surprisingly similar to that of housecats
ScienceNOW - 6:00
Horses capable of humanlike facial expressions
ScienceNOW - 2:00
Severe stress creates more healthy fat
ScienceNOW - 2:00
August 04, 2015
Extreme weight loss surgery works, but is it thanks to the knife—or the microbes?
ScienceNOW - 12:00
LED lights may disrupt the bat signal
ScienceNOW - 7:15
Drones give whales a breathalyzer test
ScienceNOW - 2:45
August 03, 2015
Clash over Alzheimer’s data intensifies
ScienceNOW - 6:00
All languages have evolved to have this in common
ScienceNOW - 3:00