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Posted July 4, 2013:

• Antifreeze, Cheap Materials May Lead to Low-Cost Solar Energy


• Hawkmoths Use Ultrasound to Combat Bats


• Bacteria Communicate to Help Each Other Resist Antibiotics


• Cockatoos 'Pick' Puzzle Box Locks: Cockatoos Show Technical Intelligence on a Five-Lock Problem


• Archaeologists Unearth Carved Head of Roman God in Ancient Rubbish Dump


• Study of Mitochondrial DNA Ties Ancient Remains to Living Descendants


• White Dwarf Star Throws Light on Possible Variability of a Constant of Nature


• Spider Webs More Effective at Ensnaring Charged Insects


• Live Fast, Die Young: Long-Lived Mice Are Less Active, Biologists Find


• Earliest Evidence of Using Flower Beds for Burial Found in Raqefet Cave in Mt. Carmel

Posted July 3, 2013:

• New Insights Into How Antibiotics Damage Human Cells Suggest Novel Strategies for Making Long-Term Antibiotic Use Safer


• Exercise Reorganizes the Brain to Be More Resilient to Stress


• Great Ape Genetic Diversity Catalog Frames Primate Evolution and Future Conservation


• Development of Hands and Feet May Help Unlock Evolution's Toolkit


• DNA Markers in Low-IQ Autism Suggest Heredity


• First Supper Is a Life Changer for Lizards


• Military Sonar Can Alter Blue Whale Behavior: Human-Made Noises Cause Ocean Giants to Move Away from Feeding Spots


• New Mechanism for Human Gene Expression Discovered


• Fossil Insect Traces Reveal Ancient Climate, Entrapment, and Fossilization at La Brea Tar Pits


• New Knowledge About Early Galaxies


• Epigenetic Changes to Fat Cells Following Exercise