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The Canadian information commissioner will investigate mounting claims that the government is stifling communication between federal scientists and the press.
Starting in 2014, the federally funded initiative will seek to develop new technologies capable of mapping the activity in the human brain.
Government policies are shuttering research facilities while muzzling federal researchers by dissuading them from talking to the press, participating in international collaborations, or publishing their work.
Pigeons may use ultra-low-frequency sounds to navigate—a strategy that could steer them off course in the face of infrasonic disturbances, such as sonic booms.
Protected areas help to conserve imperiled tropical forests, but many are struggling to sustain their resident species.
Satellites of the Golgi apparatus generate the microtubules used to grow outer dendrite branches in Drosophila neurons.
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Tooth-like structures on the skin of a South American fish might serve as high-velocity water-flow detectors.
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