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Bat tongue licks them all!(Anoura fistulata)

Apr 01, 2007; ... Imagine a mouse with a three-inch-long tongue. Now give that mouse some wings, and you've got Anoura fistulata--a rare South American bat with a tongue that can extend 1.5 times its body length! "It's like a cat being able to lap milk from two feet away," says Nathan Muchhala (University ...

This month in Odyssey.(Science Scoops)

Apr 01, 2007; ... Dear ODYSSEY Readers: I'm writing this Editor's Note as a letter, because the form is a favorite of biologist and conservationist Edward O. Wilson, whose remarkable life and work are the subjects of this issue. Wilsen's book The Future of Life is written as an open letter to ...

The tides, they are a-changin'!(Science Scoops)

Apr 01, 2007; ... At least that's what marine life must have been thinking about 250 million years ago, when the largest mass extinction occurred on our planet! Yes, in the blink of a geologic eye, some 95 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of land species were wiped out by some ...

City birds are hyper!(Science Scoops)(city birds croon faster)

Apr 01, 2007; ... Hans Slabbekoorn of Leiden University in Belgium has birds on the brain. This is because a recent study led by him ended on a high note. Songbirds living in cities, he discovered, sing faster and at higher frequencies than their forest-dwelling cousins. Slabbekoorn and his ...

LouseBuster to the rescue!(Science Scoops)(head lice cure)

Apr 01, 2007; ... Head itch? Think you've got lice? Well, don't fear: "LouseBuster" is here! Yes, it's LouseBuster--an appliance that looks something like a cross between a vacuum cleaner and a hair dryer. And, if you believe University of Utah biologist Dale Clayton and his colleagues, the ...

Life found on Mars?(Science Scoops)

Apr 01, 2007; ... Well ... maybe. At least the prospect is looking much better. You see, according to a recent article in the journal Science, studies of before-and-after images of Mars taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) show some curious changes in two gullies. What's curious is that the changes ...

The benefits of smog.(Science Scoops)

Apr 01, 2007; ... Speaking of life, do you live in Los Angeles or some other smog-laden city? Well, here's the good news: If it weren't for smog, you might not have had a chance to be around to hate it. You see. according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

E.O. Wilson boy naturalist.(Biography)

Apr 01, 2007; ... "BE A HUNTER AND EXPLORER, NOT A PROBLEM SOLVER." This is the advice, says world-renowned entomologist E.O. Wilson in his 1994 autobiography, Naturalist, that he gives to his science students. "If you have the will, there is a discipline in which you can succeed." Wilson should ...

See the world in a tree trunk.(Activity to Discover)

Apr 01, 2007 ... Incredible discoveries might be waiting for you in your own back yard. As E.O. Wilson says in his autobiography, Naturalist, "a lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree." Every exploration is a voyage of discovery, as long as you see something you ...

Edward O. Wilson: friend and fellow ant man.(Cover story)

Apr 01, 2007; ... A 6-FOOT-TALL, BESPECTACLED PROFESSOR is down on his hands and knees crawling along the ground. He has an aspirator in his mouth and is sucking up Pheidole a workers, like an anteater. My friend and colleague Ed Wilson was on a mission. That night, he needed Pheidole soldiers ...

Alabama Wilson and the zombies of the crawling brain.(Edward O. Wilson)

Apr 01, 2007; ... FLASHBACK, 1935: Young E.O. "Alabama" Wilson explores the sidewalk outside his home. He is entranced by a scurry of lion ants, genus Dorymyrmex. Despite his respect for living creatures, Alabama is overcome by an urge to crush one of the six-legged beasts. He does the deed. For ...

Ants rule! Who rules in the natural world? Sharks? Tigers? Gorillas? Or ... ants?

Apr 01, 2007; ... Naturalist Edward O. Wilson would vote for ants--along with spiders, insects, worms, and all the small creatures of Earth. These are, he wrote, "the little things that run the world." If all ants suddenly disappeared from the planet, life as we know it would collapse. In their ...

Ants in action.

Apr 01, 2007; ... You don't have to travel to South America to watch leaf-cutter ants at work. Take a close-up look at these amazing insects at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo in Washington, DC. The zoo's larger leaf-cutter ant colony lives at the Invertebrate Exhibit. "We've got a ...

So we scurried about like ants.(Play)

Apr 01, 2007; ... The from Mr. Bluni's science class have gotten lost on their way to the science museum. Can they use techniques based on ant navigation to find their way? CHARACTERS: Nat, Wendy, Esteban, Jimmy, Narrator, Mary Catherine, Mr. Bluni SETTING: Boston, MA Nat: ...

The best engineering has bugs in it: insect master builders are teaching human engineers how to develop new high-tech marvels. Learn how, then "build like an ant.".(Activity to Discover)

Apr 01, 2007; ... 1. A team of autonomous robots wall of a nuclear spill, with no one guiding them. 2. A huge covered stadium holds many thousands of people, while occupying a minimum of space. Let's see how it's done. INSECT ENGINEERING #1: Stupid Robots--Smart ...

Paradise lost: island biogeography of New Zealand.

Apr 01, 2007; ... Spin a world globe slowly around and see if you can find New Zealand. It's one of the world's most isolated island countries. Australia, the nearest significant land mass, is over 1,000 miles away. Composed of two big islands stretching almost 1,000 miles from north to south, and a galaxy ...

Edward O. Wilson: turn off the iPod ... tune in to nature.(People To Discover)(Interview)

Apr 01, 2007; ... E.O. WILSON, the Ant Man, has made his favorite little creatures so familiar to the public that two full-length animated movies have relied on ant facts for their humor. Now Wilson, also known as the Dean of Biodiversity, hopes to draw as much attention to all of the species on our planet, ...

Bio-blitz!(undiscovered species )

Apr 01, 2007; ... Armed with nets, junior high students from Peoples Church in Cedar Rapids, IA, literally beat the bushes last summer at Boston Harbor Islands National Park. Their one-day project aimed to collect as many beetles as possible for scientific identification. "Beetle Blitz was lots ...

Ant maze.(Brain Strain)

Apr 01, 2007; ... Pretend that you're a Pheidole ant. You start at any one of the four entrances at the top (see arrows) of the maze pictured here and exit through any one of the four exits at the bottom. Each time you pass through an intersection with a number, you add that number to your cumulative sum ....

Beware of hitchhikers! Read about some curious fellow readers. Then fill in the blanks, using the definitions given in the accompanying list.(Activity to Discover)

Apr 01, 2007; ... THE STRANGER WORE A LONG, BROWN COAT with little yellow spots. He was eating a citrus-almond salad in the diner where I'd stopped on Interstate 5, just south of San Francisco. Read about some curious fellow travelers. Then fill in the blanks, using the definitions given in the ...

Star chart.

Apr 01, 2007 ... The monthly All-Sky Chart depicts the sky (minus the Moon) as it appears at 8:30 p.m. (your local daylight-savings time) on April 15. Useful all month (except for planet positions), the chart is also accurate for 9:30 p.m. on April 1 and 7:30 p.m. on April 30. To use the All-Sky ...

The cosmic hot dog.(Stargazing Comic)(Cartoon)

Apr 01, 2007; ... DO YOU LIKE HOT DOGS? WELL, I'LL SHOW YOU ONE IN THE SKY! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HERE'S WHAT YOU DO! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] GO OUTSIDE AT 7P.M., PEACE SOUTHWEST, AND LOOK ABOUT A THIRD OF THE WAY UP IN THE SKY FOR SIRIUS, THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN ...

Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other BUGdacious Tales.(Children's review)(Book review)

Apr 01, 2007; ... Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other BUGdacious Tales by Tom Turpin (Purdue University Press, 2006) Did you know that in ancient times, some types of insects were used in place of stitches, to hold cuts closed? That's fight: Ancient healers would ...

Honorary mammal.(kiwis)

Apr 01, 2007; ... The five species of New Zealand's pearshaped, chicken-sized, flightless kiwis are classified as birds. Yet, unlike most birds, they have thick, leathery skin; hairlike feathers; poor eyesight; a great sense of smell and hearing; and a long, flexible bill with nostrils on the end. Their ...

Beckett under fire over Falklands 'apology'

Apr 02, 2007

SAND IN BATH GIRL ON CCTV WITH KILLER ; VITAL FOOTAGE HOURS BEFORE MURDER

Apr 02, 2007;

Stem cells used to grow heart valves

Apr 02, 2007

Tories call for Brown pension raid probe

Apr 02, 2007

Picasso's Pounds 14m writing on wall

Apr 02, 2007

IN BRIEF

Apr 02, 2007