Before this month comes to a close, let us not forget to honor February as American Heart Month. According to the CDC…
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Aggregators Heart Health Awareness Month
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Aggregators Animal Heartbreakers? Animals, Behavior, and “Love”
Animal emotion remains a fairly contentious area of scientific research, but there is a growing body of evidence to support the idea…
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Aggregators Cervical Health Awareness Month
Health risks can be frightening, but ignorance to these risks can be even more terrifying. In the past, we have discussed a…
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Aggregators The Downside of Sharing: Winter Bugs
Unfortunately, increasing numbers of us are experiencing this year’s particularly brutal seasonal flu (most frequently influenza A, subtype H3N2). The CDC’s latest…
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Aggregators Greetings from Lake Socompa! A Diversity of Life in Extreme Conditions
The photo above comes to us from a remote part of the Andes, at the base of the active volcano Socompa. Lake…
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Fun Penguins Punctuate 2012 for PLOS ONE
Today is the last day of 2012. As you put on your formal wear and get ready to ring in the new…
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Images Prowling Catfish Catch Pigeons on Land
Cats hunt birds, and sea-birds hunt fish. And in some odd ecological pockets, catfish hunt pigeons. In a study published today by…
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Fun Plunging into the Unknown: Belly Button Bacteria and You
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what kinds of life might exist out there? Well, you can…
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Aggregators What Influences Voter Behavior?
Although we’d like to believe that people determine how to vote based on relevant political issues, research has shown that countless subtle…
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Aggregators Halloween Highlights: Crushing Jaws!
Happy Halloween to those goblins and ghouls amongst you! Before you go trick-or-treating tonight, let’s wrap up our month-long series on creepy…
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Fun Worth a Thousand Words
How many arrows are depicted in the photo above? How many can you find? One? Five? The answer is 118. In research…
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Aggregators Worth a Thousand Words: Rediscovering an “Extinct” Species
It’s not every day that you come across a living member of an extinct species. Nathan Whelan, a doctoral student at the…