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Brain can navigate based solely on smells

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How do neural support cells affect nerve function?

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Getting sleepy? Fruit flies constantly tune into environmental temperature to time sleep

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New UMass Amherst, Stanford research identifies plant cell wall-sensing mechanism

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Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical food

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New guide for finding genes linked with behavior

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Fruit bat's echolocation may work like sophisticated surveillance sonar

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Study shines new light on how Salmonella 'die' at low temperatures

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New 'Tomato Expression Atlas' dives deep into the fruit's flesh

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More rice, please: 13 rice genomes reveal ways to keep up with ever-growing population

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Evolution of China's flowering plants shows East-West divide between old, new lineages

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Tactic for controlling motor symptoms of advanced Parkinson's disease

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Fish study IDs genes that regulate social behaviors

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Breakthrough study shows how plants sense the world

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Counting chromosomes: Plant scientists solve a century-old mystery about reproduction

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Mantis shrimp size each other up before ceding a fight

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Drones confirm importance of Costa Rican waters for sea turtles

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Penn-led team uncovers the physiology behind the hour-long mating call of midshipman fish

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Expert unlocks mechanics of how snakes move in a straight line

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UC biologists peek into the past to see the future through tiny spider eyes

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Worm species lost 7,000 genes after evolving to fertilize itself

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Agricultural parasite takes control of host plant's genes

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Social susceptibility

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A classic Darwinian ecological hypothesis holds up -- with a twist

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'Simple, but powerful' model reveals mechanisms behind neuron development

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UMass Amherst, Peking University scientists advance knowledge of plant reproduction

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Tricky grass genome sequenced after two decades of investment and research

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Why are there no sea snakes in the Atlantic?

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Video: Biologist Sean B. Carroll on ecosystem resilience

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