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Hunting habits of lions [Inner Workings] (2013)

Williams, S. C. P.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2013-09-25

Description: A GPS-collared lioness in South Africa’s Kruger National Park surveys the landscape. Image courtesy of Craig Tambling. As the sun sets on the African Savannah, lionesses can be spotted prowling the open land, hunting and making kills, often as a group. Males are more often lounging around during this time,...

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Ecological monitoring in Peru [Inner Workings] (2013)

Horne, R.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2013-09-11

Description: Patricia Alvarez (Left) and a colleague measure vine growth in Peru’s Manú National Park as part of an ecological assessment team. Patricia Alvarez travels 2 days by boat deep into the remote center of Peru's Manú National Park to Cocha Cashu Biological Station to measure 7,000 trees and vines by...

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Freeing the dinos within [Inner Workings] (2014)

Ornes, S.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2014-12-03

Description: Paleontologists have long faced a daunting obstacle to their research: Fossils are usually embedded in rock. To manually wrench the fossils out, scientists use an array of tools, from needles to dentist’s drills to dissolving acids, often with destructive results. Swedish paleozoologist Erik Jarvik, for example, famously took 25 years...

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Cell and DNA repository [Inner Workings] (2013)

Williams, S. C. P.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2013-02-20

Description: pnas;110/8/2686/UNFIG01F1unfig01A technician removes cryopreserved cells from a deep freeze at the Rutger’s Cell and DNA Repository. Image courtesy of Jay A. Tischfield, founder and Chief Executive Officer of RUCDR, Piscataway, NJ.From the outside, it looks like any typical academic building on the Rutgers University campus. However, inside RUCDR (formerly Rutgers...

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Drilling for microbes [Inner Workings] (2013)

Zeliadt, N.

National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2013-02-13

Description: pnas;110/7/2434/UNFIG01F1unfig01The scientific ocean drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution features an ∼7-meter-diameter moon pool. Image courtesy of William Crawford (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX).For scientists who study subseafloor sediment, it’s not unusual to spend a lot of time at sea aboard a ship with a gaping hole...

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Testing for executive function in gibbons [Inner Workings] (2014)

Frederick, R.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2014-04-02

Description: It is a commonly held assumption that we humans have a unique thinking ability that distinguishes us from other animals. However, every time scientists have tested that assumption—whether testing for self-recognition in a mirror, the existence of language, problem-solving ability, knowing what another is thinking (or “theory of mind”), deception,...

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Controlling flies with lasers [Inner Workings] (2014)

Williams, S. C. P.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2014-10-29

Description: Inside a two-centimeter-wide pen, a male and female fruit fly dance around each other, performing the careful steps of courtship. However, as the male Drosophila melanogaster begins to approach the female, he crosses an invisible line six millimeters away from the object of his dance. A laser, its beam barely...

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Inner Workings: Roboclam [Inner Workings] (2014)

Cofield, C.

National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2014-10-22

Description: Digging in the sand might seem like child's play, but doing it efficiently has stumped many adult engineers. As is often the case, nature has revealed a superior solution: this time in the Atlantic razor clam, which can burrow into and out of sandy ocean bottoms more efficiently than man-made,...

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The first rabies vaccination in humans [Inner Workings] (2014)

Rappuoli, R.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2014-08-27

Description: The first human vaccination with a rabies virus attenuated by exposure to dry air started on July 6, 1885, and was reported in the session of the French Academy of Sciences on October 26, 1885 (1). In his report, Louis Pasteur describes how experiments started in 1882 led him to...

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The strictest biosafety [Inner Workings] (2014)

Dance, A.

National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2014-09-10

Description: In a small town in the middle of Montana, biologists handle deadly pathogens such as Ebola. Hamilton, with a population of about 4,500, hosts the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Rocky Mountain Laboratories, one of a few dozen facilities worldwide equipped to deal with disease agents designated the...

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