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Ring-tailed lemurs (shown here at the Duke University Lemur Center) negotiate their social lives with help from complex body scents, which new research shows are changed when females are given contraceptives. Full Story Duke University Lemur Center SN Today: 
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RSS - Lemurs on contraceptives don’t smell right 7.28.10 - Birth control disrupts female odors that are important social cues Found in: Genes & Cells and Life
- Trailing dust devils 7.28.10 - Whirlwinds create dark paths by sucking sand grains clean Found in: Earth, Earth Science and Planetary Science
- Erasing wrinkles, the physicists’ way 7.27.10 - Researchers study how folds and other creases disappear Found in: Materials Science, Matter & Energy and Physics
- Researchers create global map of tree height 7.26.10 - Mapping changes over time could help track forest carbon content Found in: Earth
- ‘Housekeeping’ proteins may set aging limit 7.25.10 - Aging cells may seal their fate by keeping worn-out proteins when they sprout offspring Found in: Body & Brain and Genes & Cells
- Swarming locusts impossible to predict 7.23.10 - Mathematical analysis shows that insects travel to the beat of their own drum Found in: Environment, Life, Numbers and Physics
- Oldest dog debated 7.22.10 - Fossil jaw may, or may not, come from oldest known example of man’s best friend Found in: Life and Paleontology
- Gut first 7.22.10 - Crawling caterpillars move their insides forward before their outsides, X-rays reveal Found in: Ecology, Genes & Cells, Life and Zoology
- Fearless tadpoles give invaders the edge 7.21.10 - Clueless larvae don’t shrink from nonnative turtles, study suggests Found in: Environment, Life and Zoology
- Diet and behavior changes may slow Alzheimer’s 7.21.10 - Dog study also suggests brain plaques not a cause Found in: Biomedicine and Body & Brain
- Taking some of the doubt out of IVF 7.19.10 - Complex algorithm predicts probability of in vitro fertilization success better than standard age model Found in: Body & Brain
- Stuck in the past 7.19.10 - Molecular remnants may limit potential of reprogrammed stem cells Found in: Genes & Cells
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