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The Rough Guide to Psychology by Christian Jarrett.

Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare by James P. Delgado. Osprey, 2011 [More]

Does science sometimes move too fast for own good? Or anyone's good? Do scientists, in their eagerness for fame, fortune, promotions and tenure, rush results into print?

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Nothing says summer like ants. They’re at your picnics, on your porch, why there’s one crawling up your leg right now

James Gleick is best known for his groundbreaking bestseller Chaos, and has also authored inspired biographies of Newton and Richard Feynman. [More]

By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Scientists have found an antibody that inactivates all influenza A subtypes. [More]

In addition to being interesting animals to watch, squirrels can tell us a lot about our local environment and how it is changing [More]

After an echolocating bat locks on to an insect with its sonar beam, it can keep track of its prey despite receiving a slew of echoes from other objects--leaves, vines and so on. How does it separate echoes bouncing off its target from echoes bouncing off the surrounding clutter, especially when the echoes reach the bat at the same time?

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Have a spare polar icebreaker lying around? The National Science Foundation would like to hear from you.

For a limited time, the full text of this article is being made available for fans of Scientific American's page on Facebook. Read it now or become a fan . [More]

By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - There are 1.5 million bats living under a bridge in downtown Austin, and a historic Texas drought is making them hungrier than ever. [More]

Again, our bloggers produced some amazing stuff today:

More than 60 mammal species--like the famous flying squirrel--have adapted the ability to sail from tree to tree. Thrilling, yes