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Why humans may have more in common with chimps than we thought

What can humans learn about ourselves from studying chimpanzees? Primatologist Frans de Waal has spent almost three decades studying the behavior and intelligence of chimpanzees. Now, he’s focused on their emotional lives--and he’s found primates and people aren’t so different…

By Jeffrey Brown, Leah Nagy

Science Apr 06

Paul Rudd poses for a portrait while promoting the movie "Ant-Man and the Wasp" in Pasadena, California, U.S., June 24, 2018. Picture taken June 24, 2018. Photo by REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
Paul Rudd and the science behind youthful skin

Why isn't Paul Rudd aging? For his 50th birthday, PBS NewsHour asked three dermatologists for tips on recreating the Paul Rudd effect.

By Nsikan Akpan

Science Mar 15

Stormtroopers are identical masked soldiers of Star Wars fame. Because of their uniformity, researchers named a newly-described group of spiders after them. Image courtesy of Jason Trbovich
This new ‘army’ of spiders is named after Star Wars stormtroopers

They wouldn’t survive the deserts of Tatooine or the frigid planet Hoth, but these newly described, tarantula-like spiders are named after the stormtroopers who marched through the “Star Wars” movies.

By Vicky Stein

Science Jul 05

A spider exhibits tiptoeing behavior and its silk gets picked up by an electric field. Image by Erica Morley and Daniel Robert
Spiders fly on the currents of Earth’s electric field

Spiders don’t have wings, but they can fly across entire oceans on long strands of silk. For more than a century, scientists thought it was the wind that carried them, but a new study shows the Earth’s electric field can…

By Amanda Grennell

Oct 04

2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to ‘cool’ 3D pictures of bioarchitecture

By Nsikan Akpan

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a way to image biomolecules at cold temperatures.

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May 08

Can’t resist candy? You may have this mutation

By Nsikan Akpan

If you’re a candy lover or denier, you may want to blame one of your liver hormones, according to a new study.

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Apr 24

Naked mole rats can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen. Here’s why.

By Andrew Wagner

It has a little something to do with sugar.

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Feb 09

Pill bugs emerged from the sea to conquer the Earth

By Joshua Cassidy, KQED Science

Pill bugs are more closely related to shrimp and lobsters than crickets or butterflies -- plus other little known facts about roly polies.

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Dec 06

Big antlers shouldn’t exist. This math model explains why they do

By Kristin Hugo

Mathematicians tackle a question that once stumped Charles Darwin: Why do animals have antlers, manes and other ornaments?…

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