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Wednesday th 23rd of July 2014

Schadenfreude starts young - 13:50

Babies’ brains practice words long before they can speak - 12:50

Airborne MERS virus found in Saudi Arabian camel barn - 10:40

Tuesday th 22nd of July 2014

Mouse sperm parties make for straight swimmers - 19:10

Moose drool can undermine grass defenses - 19:10

For rats, a break from stress isn’t worth the relief - 16:31

Elephant’s big nose wins most sensitive sniffer - 16:31

Bacteria's bodies do whirlies to help them swim - 15:31

Hints about schizophrenia emerge from genetic study - 12:01

Offshore wind farms may be seal feeding grounds - 11:20

Termite soldiers locate battles with vibrational clues - 11:20

Carbs and gut microbes fuel colon cancer - 11:01

Monday th 21st of July 2014

Gut microbes help packrats eat poison - 18:10

Offshore wind farms may be seal hunting grounds - 17:10

Sandstone structures form without cement - 12:40

Comet ISON fell apart earlier than realized - 07:20

Friday th 18th of July 2014

Wax-coated plastic morphs between soft and stiff - 16:31

You shouldn’t try to pigeonhole quantum physics - 16:31

Organic foods may contain extra antioxidants - 15:32

Cell phone towers monitor African rains - 09:10

Pig heartbeats adjusted with gene therapy - 08:10

First case of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus, acquired in U.S. - 05:50

Thursday th 17th of July 2014

Romanian cave holds some of the oldest human footprints - 15:50

To do your best, find a rival - 15:10

Pregnancy disorder shares aspects with Alzheimer’s - 13:31

Obese women struggle to learn food associations - 12:31

Rosetta spacecraft sees possible 'double' comet - 11:50

Front doors carry ‘thin patina’ of poop bacteria - 11:50

Voyager may not have entered interstellar space, after all - 08:10

Wednesday th 16th of July 2014

Dark matter hunters may get three new experiments - 17:20

Diamonds under pressure impersonate exoplanet cores - 12:20

Dinos' long tail feathers may have stopped crash landings - 12:20

You don’t have to go to Antarctica to see wild penguins - 10:02

Wine corks may owe quality to gene activity - 08:01

Tuesday th 15th of July 2014

Electrode turns consciousness on and off - 16:30

Boron atoms take on buckyball shape - 12:50

In female flies, sex is more complex than yes or no - 09:10

Bird’s-eye views of the globe highlight avian trouble spots - 08:10

Monday th 14th of July 2014

That stinky gorilla may be trying to say something - 16:00

Domesticated animals’ juvenile appearance tied to embryonic cells - 15:40

Heavy marijuana use may affect dopamine response - 14:21

Clovis people may have hunted elephant-like prey, not just mammoths - 14:21

Windblown dust may muck up regional climate predictions - 11:40

Baby mammoths died traumatic deaths - 10:21

Giving kids a spoonful of medicine: not what the doctor ordered - 09:40

Elephant shrews are, oddly, related to actual elephants - 08:20

Sunday th 13th of July 2014

'Tambora' links volcano to the 'year without a summer' - 14:20

New water bear species found in Antarctica - 10:20

Saturday th 12th of July 2014

‘Kidding Ourselves’ shows the rational side of self-deception - 16:00

Humans have long history with causing extinctions - 11:00