After controlling for several other factors, study shows increased aggression in five-year-olds who were spanked more often as three-year-olds.

How prenatal experience shapes sensory development

Also, PopCap should totally sell lawn ornaments.

Thanks to meowse for first & last links.

Bees butt waggle dancers when danger lurks

TED Talk on bacterial intercommunication, and its applications in the natural and medical worlds. Also, glow-in-the-dark squid! Thank you, tugger!

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Can you find the humans?

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/04/by-annalee-newitz-500-pm-on-mon-apr-27-2009-10350-views-edit-post-set-to-draft-slurpcopy-this-whole-post-to-

Interesting discoveries about chimeras--people (or other animals) with multiple sets of DNA.

How ocean fish suffer when exposed to pharmaceuticals from water processing plants

From Wikipedia on bird vocalization:

The language of the birds has long been a topic for anecdote and speculation. That calls have meanings that are interpreted by their listeners has been well demonstrated. Domestic chicken have distinctive alarm calls for aerial and ground predators, and they respond to these alarm calls appropriately. However a ( Read more... )

Marine biologist delves into materials science, nanotechnology

Some things I've learned today:

1.) Maybe schizophrenia is caused by a virus. (or maybe moms who carry genes for schizophrenia are more likely to catch diseases, or something ( Read more... )