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How can satellites help biologists understand animals’ response to climate change?
How does a cheetah posse behave? How do they reunite after long separations?
A scientist, inspired by her blanket-licking cat, is developing soft robotics based on cat tongue physics.
Spaceflight, crashing into Mercury, pictures of Pluto, visualizing nebulae, and X-rays from zombie stars
... And other space news from this week, including brine on Mars and a map of dark matter.
Scientists are using 21st Century technology to solve some of the most pressing mysteries of the human body.
How does a lightweight bird make a thousand-mile plus migration over the open ocean?
By taking high resolution images of our collections, the Academy is making our specimens available to the world.
Scientists are studying hummingbirds to learn the secrets to steady flight.
Using new techniques, scientists are uncovering more information from a fossil of a human ancestor.
This week's news from around the Universe...