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Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass
FEATURE: 12:47 22 July 2010 | 5 comments
They're often branded as thoughtless and irresponsible, but teenage mothers and deadbeat dads may be making the best of their bad situations
Baby boomer marmots fatten up with climate change
18:00 21 July 2010
Colorado's baby-boomer marmots have been getting fatter and their population has been swelling – the changes seem to be caused by the warming climate
O2h no! Is our oxygen running out?
FEATURE: 15:08 21 July 2010
The evidence is in: the gas we breathe is becoming scarcer – and we're to blame. What does that mean for life on Earth?
Zoologger: Secret to long life found… in a baby dragon
14:35 21 July 2010 | 2 comments
The mysterious olm was once believed to be a juvenile dragon – now it is providing valuable clues in the quest for the elixir of life
Twitter mood maps reveal emotional states of America
12:14 21 July 2010
How is the US feeling right now? The emotional words contained in hundreds of millions of tweets may hold the answers
Skull tells tale of the lost primates of the Caribbean
THIS WEEK: 00:01 21 July 2010 | 5 comments
A primate skull found in an underwater cave on Hispaniola is evidence of the primitive and strange fauna that the Caribbean has lost
Laughter's secrets: GSOH not required
FEATURE: 17:50 20 July 2010 | 3 comments
Why do women laugh at men's jokes?
Fascinating frogs hopping to extinction
GALLERY: 17:09 20 July 2010
Thirty species of frog have been wiped out from the El Copé National Park in Panama. We look at the some of the weirdest
Laughter's secrets: The sound of a happy ape
FEATURE: 12:35 20 July 2010 | 1 comment
Animal laughter is very different to ours – if it even exists
Enlist malaria-resistant mosquitoes to stop its spread
10:36 20 July 2010 | 1 comment
A novel gene that cranks up a mosquito's immune system helps it stay malaria-free, despite drinking infected blood
Out with pink and blue: Don't foster the gender divide
THE BIG IDEA: 13:43 19 July 2010 | 7 comments
In a world that needs nimble brains and sophisticated thinking, we must junk stereotypes about boys and girls once and for all, says Lise Eliot
Want to get off to sleep? Ask your astrocytes nicely
THIS WEEK: 14:15 16 July 2010
Cells previously dismissed as minor players in the brain may actually regulate when we fall asleep
ANIMALS
Family values: Why wolves belong together
Wolf packs are hard-working family enterprises and assets to their ecological communities – that's why we shouldn't treat them like outlaw gangs
ASTROBIOLOGY
If there's life on Mars, it could be right-handed
Some Earth life can consume both left- and right-handed nutrients, which could complicate the hunt for extraterrestrial life
