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Science BriefsTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 2:41AMStride provides a way for crabs to find home Most animals have the ability to return home from a foraging trip, even if home is nowhere in sight. In a report in Current Biology, Michael L. Walls and John E. Layne of the University of Cincinnati show that the fiddler crab Uca pugilator uses its stride to gauge distance. The researchers devised an experiment in which they put a slippery sheet of ...

Science BriefsTuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 2:41AMStride provides a way for crabs to find home Most animals have the ability to return home from a foraging trip, even if home is nowhere in sight. In a report in Current Biology, Michael L. Walls and John E. Layne of the University of Cincinnati show that the fiddler crab Uca pugilator uses its stride to gauge distance. The researchers devised an experiment in which they put a slippery sheet of ...

Soft drinks a bit of a pestMonday, January 5, 2009 @ 5:28AMFANTA drinks sold in Britain contain pesticides at up to 300 times the level allowed in tap or bottled water, according to research.

Company pledges UM fundsFriday, January 2, 2009 @ 11:16PMORONO, Maine — A local consulting firm with strong ties to the University of Maine in Orono has pledged $100,000 to maintain and upgrade a research laboratory for environmental engineering students.

Newsmaker: Lou Anna SimonTuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 9:30AMMSU won the competition for FRIB — the Facility for Rare Isotope Research — over the Argonne National Laboratory, just outside of Chicago, at the same time then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was being elected president. Did you ever worry his ascendancy might hurt MSU’s chances?