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• Why is it so hard to swat a fly?
This illustrates how rapidly the fly's brain can process sensory information into an appropriate motor response," said Dickinson, whose research appears in the journal Current Biology.
• Giant clams may have fed early humans
This mollusk could be the earliest victim of human degradation of coral reefs in this region, the researchers added. The scientists detailed their findings online on Aug. 28 in the journal Current Biology.
• Fossil of ancient turtle with her eggs discovered
Both specimens, described this week in the journal Biology Letters , belong to an extinct turtle in the Adocus genus, a large river turtle that resembles today's slider and cooter turtles.
• Europe gets its own rover ready for Mars
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• Some genes get shushed along the way
WASHINGTON - Remember biology class where you learned that children inherit one copy of a gene from mom and a second from dad? There’s a twist: Some of those genes arrive switched off, so there is no backup if the other copy goes bad, making you ...