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By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine US researchers are concerned that revised guidelines that recommend a minimum size for breeding lab rodents' cages will substantially increase the cost of animal work. The eighth edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, published last year by the US National Academies in Washington DC, is the first to recommend minimum cage sizes for female rats and mice and their litters. [More]

As a dung beetle rolls its planet of poop along the ground it periodically stops, climbs onto the ball and does a little dance. Why? It's probably getting its bearings

University of California, Berkeley, researchers find evidence of social and psychological support in gossip

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The Amazon rainforest is in flux, thanks to agricultural expansion and climate change. In other words, humans have "become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon Basin," as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in Nature on January 19.

Dung beetles dance to check their navigation.

It can be awkward, but getting one can also be essential for your health

Will supplements help vitamin D-deficient patients of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Study yields surprising results

Queen of high-fat cooking teams up with diabetes drugmaker, says "can have diabetes and have a piece of cake"

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Web Protests Of Privacy Acts Begin . As planned, Wikipedia , Google , and scores of other websites have gone dark to protest the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the U.S.

Carol Daly is 68-years old and suffering from advanced Alzheimer's disease. In an emotional interview, Dr. Jon LaPook sits down with Mrs.

Government advisors tried to set priorities for a national campaign to treat and manage Alzheimer's disease, which is projected to cost more than a trillion dollars in care by 2050.

As experimental drug fails to help one NY woman, the government sets ambitious -- but unfunded goals

It's all fun and margaritas when you first book a cruise. But that "ticket" is actually a contract that can run more than a dozen pages, and gives away more rights to the cruise ship company than you may realize.