Wednesday, 8 February, 2012

During Hurricane Charley, ocean fish sing their mating songs louder and longer.

New shark repellent tested. How common are shark attacks? Meet the social shark. Learn why some people are fascinated by this cold-blooded killer.

Animals watch others and change their behavior to match.

Giant Australian cuttlefish cross-dresses to mate. Small males temporarily look like females, mating right under the noses of the big boys!

German dog learneh through fast mapping, much the same way children learn words. So why don’t other dogs have such a good vocabulary?

Like a chamberful of pork-barreling legislators, cicadas are on the wing in Washington, D.C. Voracious. Unstoppable. A force of nature: 17-year cicadas are back!

Spiders stick to surfaces with tiny hairs, using van der Waals forces. Small critters use small forces to big advantage.

Old museum collection sheds light on vanishing land snails of Polynesia.

New tracking systems watch long-distance migrants move across the ocean. Follow whales, turtles and albatrosses across the watery planet.

How does the brain change when we remember or learn? Why babies don’t remember their first year of life? What exactly is a memory?