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Emily Willingham
Japan tsunami spread across the Pacific
A video from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows how the March 11, 2011 Japan tsunami reverberated across the Pacific Ocean.
March 15, 2011
Endangered Javan rhinos caught on film, with babies
With only 40 Javan rhinoceroses left in the world, video of two rhinos with their calves has rhino watchers ecstatic.
March 13, 2011
Mating mites trapped in amber show the female in control
Some 40 million years ago, the Glaesacarus rhombeus female mite made the mating choice. A pair of mites trapped in amber tells the tale.
March 9, 2011
Earthquake in a wheelbarrow
Watch this video created by a survivor of the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.
March 3, 2011
Male polygamists benefit more than females in reproduction
In the calculus of evolution, your ability to represent, gene-wise, in future generations is your measure of evolutionary fitness. By this calculus, male polygamists rule.
February 28, 2011
In war against malaria, gene mashup is promising weapon
A mosquito-loving fungus, genetically combined with a scorpion toxin, is a recent and apparently promising weapon in the global struggle against malaria.
February 27, 2011
Rebel fungus pair rewrites heredity rules and redraws tree of life
Twenty five million years ago, a copied chunk of the genome of one fungus jumped intact to the genome of another, thus rewriting heredity's rules as we know them.
February 22, 2011
Slow down there, diet soda study
A February 2011 study suggests a link between diet soda and stroke and other vascular events. But the lack of peer review needs to be acknowledged in news stories.
February 13, 2011
