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The Sound of Color
By Jef Akst | May 1, 2012
A completely colorblind musician and painter perceives the world in a new way with help from technology.
Mighty Moth Man
By Cristina Luiggi | May 1, 2012
An evolutionary biologist’s posthumous publication restores the peppered moth to its iconic status as a textbook example of evolution.
It’s Raining Mice
By Sabrina Richards | May 1, 2012
A new brown tree snake control strategy takes to the skies as scientists scatter toxic rodents over Guam’s forest canopy.
From Squeaks to Song
By Hannah Waters | May 1, 2012
House mice sing melodies out of the range of human hearing, and the crooning is impacting research from evolutionary biology to neuroscience.
Microscopy Boot Camp
By Jeffrey M. Perkel | April 1, 2012
A researcher in Florida changes lives by showing struggling 20-somethings the ins and outs of life in the lab.
Marked for Life
By Jef Akst | April 1, 2012
Conservationists working in Madagascar are doing the unthinkable—defacing the shells of endangered ploughshare tortoises—but it may be the animals’ last hope.
Robo Rat
By Jef Akst | April 1, 2012
More-realistic whiskered robots are better able to navigate dark or dusty environments, while providing insights into rodent sensory processing.
Bushmeat Roulette
By Megan Scudellari | April 1, 2012
Pathogens lurk in illegal wildlife products confiscated at US airports.
Snake Tales
By Ruth Williams | March 1, 2012
An anthropologist and a herpetologist join forces to reveal the complex shared evolutionary and ecological history of pythons and primates.
Test-Tube Zoo Babies
By Jef Akst | March 1, 2012
A National Zoo researcher works to perfect gamete preservation and in vitro fertilization techniques in order to better manage endangered populations.
