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Snakes use their overlapping scales to snag uneven ground and achieve their trademark slither, a new study says.

June 9, 2009
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In Lithuania, eating crow isn't an exercise in public humiliation, as the English idiom suggests. Here, crow is literally eaten, and says one connoisseur, "it increases sexual potency." Video.

June 09, 2009
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Codes that can't be hacked without revealing the hackers may be on the horizon, thanks to a team of Austrian physicists who sent pairs of entangled photons across long distances.

June 5, 2009
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See a pie-throwing fest, a cone of water vapor around a supersonic jet, and a glacier getting a sun shield in this week's best news pictures.

June 4, 2009
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Manatees can't hear the low sounds of boat engines, which is why the animals are frequently injured, a researcher says. A high-pitched alarm could solve the problem. Video.

June 04, 2009
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Apes laugh too, say researchers who tickled gorillas, chimps, orangutans, bonobos, and human babies—suggesting laughter began in a prehistoric ape-human ancestor. Video.

June 04, 2009
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Tickling baby chimps and other apes—and a few humans—scientists have found the first hard evidence for ape laughter, a new study says.

June 4, 2009
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Nicknamed "Jacques Cousteau" clouds, these "turbulent" seas in the sky could be examples of the first official new cloud type since 1951.

June 3, 2009
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Researchers have discovered ten new emperor penguin colonies by spotting penguin excrement stains on Antarctic ice from satellite images. Video.

June 03, 2009
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Bandages and gels laced with a maggot enzyme may soon be coming to a drugstore or hospital near you, doctors have announced.

June 3, 2009
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Mice genetically engineered to produce a human protein that protects nursing babies from viruses and bacteria could be a first step toward healthier baby formula, Russian scientists report.

June 2, 2009
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Thousands of years before the Joker gassed comic book victims into a grinning death, Phoenicians were forcing smiles on the faces of the dead—and now we know how, scientists say.

June 2, 2009
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A new filling derived from the bile produced during digestion could eliminate the need for mercury and other toxic chemicals in modern dentistry, a new study suggests.

June 1, 2009
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On May 28, 1959, two U.S. monkeys became the first to make it back from space alive. Get to know these national heroes as well as some of the other animals that have been launched into the history books over the past 50 years.

May 29, 2009
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In New York City, where beekeeping is illegal due to health concerns, bee lovers often put hives on rooftops to avoid detection. Video.

May 29, 2009

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