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Sociable Chimps Harbor Richer Gut Microbiomes
Spending time in close contact with others often means risking catching germs and getting sick. But being sociable may also help transmit beneficial microbes, finds...

Scientists Discover How We Play Memories in Fast Forward
New research shows how we use a special brain wave frequency when we think about past or future events to play them in fast forward.

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Some Prairie Vole Brains Are Better Wired for Sexual Fidelity
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that natural selection drives some male prairie voles to be fully monogamous and others to...

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Fish Skin Provides Invisibility in Open Ocean
Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery about how some fish seem to disappear from predators in the open waters of the ocean, a discovery that...

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Mixing Ages in Head Start Stunts Academic Progress
Four-year-olds in the nation’s largest preschool program fare worse with 3-year-olds in their classrooms, according to new research led by Elizabeth Gershoff that shows a...

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Chemistry in Mold Reveals Important Clue for Pharmaceuticals
In a discovery from the lab of Jessie Zhang that holds promise for future drug development, scientists have detected for the first time how nature...

Engineering Bacterial Communities Improves Plant Growth
University of Texas at Austin scientists say there's a simple way for home gardeners and small farmers to give plants a pesticide-free boost: by harnessing...

Study Shows Common Molecular Tool Kit Organisms Share Across Tree of Life
Researchers at UT Austin discovered the assembly instructions for nearly 1,000 protein complexes shared by most kinds of animals.

Froggy Went a Courtin'
A graduate student and her advisor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin have discovered that female frogs are also prone to the...

Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution
Robots evolve more quickly and efficiently after a virtual mass extinction modeled after real-life disasters such as the one that killed off the dinosaurs.
