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Music, the future of American science, and more

Diverse species are said to sing, but music is in the ear of the beholder.

A survey of sounds from birds to whales to fruit flies to fish

Watch Profilee Erich Jarvis salsa dancing with a professional company.

Visit the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research, located in Montreal, to see the research seeking to decipher humans’ relationship to music.

Little penguins (Eudyptula minor) live on the southeast coast of Australia, one of the global “hot spots” of marine diversity most severely affected by global warming.

Human embryonic kidney cells use actin cytoskeletal networks to organize proteins on the surfaces of cell membranes.

Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Scientific Information and The Scientist, has passed away at age 91.

Scientists create an artificial heart fiber that can mimic the movement in a living heart.

Bees can learn complex behaviors to obtain rewards.

Two major causes of the rapid Koala decline in South East Queensland are car accidents and chlamydia.

Four newly discovered species of night frog (Nyctibatrachus) are now counted among the smallest frogs in the world.

Worker bumblebees vary in how efficiently they bring pollen and nectar back to the hive—the most active foragers can make up to 40 times more trips than the least active ones.

Cuon alpinus, a wild canine found in India, lives peacefully alongside tigers and leopards, despite being in direct competition for food.

Onchocerca volvulus, a parasitic worm, may cause a fatal form of epilepsy in children by inducing an autoimmune reaction.