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An article from Science News Jan 2021
These spiders may sew leaves into fake shelters to lure frogs to their doom
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Clearing land to feed a growing human population will threaten thousands of species
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A mink in Utah is the first known case of the coronavirus in a wild animal
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A highly contagious face cancer may not wipe out Tasmanian devils after all
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Technology and natural hazards clash to create ‘natech’ disasters
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A blue-green glow adds to platypuses’ long list of bizarre features
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A fish’s fins may be as sensitive to touch as fingertips
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How octopuses ‘taste’ things by touching
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Why bat scientists are socially distancing from their subjects
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Before migrating, some blue whales switch up the timing of their songs
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A stray molar is the oldest known fossil from an ancient gibbon
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This hummingbird survives cold nights by nearly freezing itself solid
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Protecting half the planet could help solve climate change and save species
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Species may swim thousands of kilometers to escape ocean heat waves
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How tuataras live so long and can withstand cool weather
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Some spiders may spin poisonous webs laced with neurotoxins
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An ancient skull hints crocodiles swam from Africa to the Americas
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Agriculture and fossil fuels are driving record-high methane emissions
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Bizarre caecilians may be the only amphibians with venomous bites
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Earth’s annual e-waste could grow to 75 million metric tons by 2030
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Rapid sea level rise could drown protective mangrove forests by 2100
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A new device can produce electricity using shadows
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These tube-shaped creatures may be the earliest known parasites
An article from Science News May 2020
Pollen-deprived bumblebees may speed up plant blooming by biting leaves
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A new artificial eye mimics and may outperform human eyes
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Daily global CO2 emissions dropped dramatically as COVID-19 kept people home
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Some comb jellies cannibalize their young when food is scarce
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Why mammals like elephants and armadillos might get drunk easily
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Earthy funk lures tiny creatures to eat and spread bacterial spores
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A U.S. oil-producing region is leaking twice as much methane as once thought
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Toxin-producing bacteria can make this newt deadly
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Ancient recipes led scientists to a long-lost natural blue
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The Great Barrier Reef is suffering its most widespread bleaching ever recorded
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There’s no evidence the coronavirus jumped from pangolins to people
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Thirdhand smoke wafting off moviegoers hurts air quality in theaters
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Bright yellow spots help some orb weaver spiders lure their next meal
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Fossil fuel use may emit 40 percent more methane than we thought
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Ocean acidification could degrade sharks' tough skin
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Why some whales are giants and others are just big
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Licelike insects munched on dinosaur feathers around 100 million years ago
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A tiny switch could redirect light between computer chips in mere nanoseconds
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Silver-backed chevrotains have been ‘rediscovered’ by science after 29 years
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The first artificial material that follows sunlight may upgrade solar panels
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A toe bone hints that Neandertals used eagle talons as jewelry
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Aye-ayes just got weirder with the discovery of a tiny, sixth ‘finger’
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How tardigrades protect their DNA to defy death
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The development of the lithium-ion battery has won the chemistry Nobel Prize
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Losing genes may have helped whales’ ancestors adapt to life under the sea
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We’ve lost 3 billion birds since 1970 in North America
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Birds fed a common pesticide lost weight rapidly and had migration delays
An article from Science News Aug 2019
A chip made with carbon nanotubes, not silicon, marks a computing milestone
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Ocean acidification could weaken diatoms’ glass houses
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Big and bold wasp queens may create more successful colonies
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New cloaking devices could hide objects from water waves and currents
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Mercury levels in fish are rising despite reduced emissions
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Monkeys can use basic logic to decipher the order of items in a list
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U.S. wells are pumping up groundwater from increasing depths
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Planting trees could buy more time to fight climate change than thought
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The largest seaweed bloom ever detected spanned the Atlantic in 2018
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These fungi drug cicadas with psilocybin or amphetamine to make them mate nonstop
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Hyenas roamed the Arctic during the last ice age
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Chemicals in biodegradable food containers can leach into compost
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Thousands of birds perished in the Bering Sea. Arctic warming may be to blame
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Tweaking one gene with CRISPR switched the way a snail shell spirals
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Deep-sea fishes’ eye chemistry might let them see colors in near darkness
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1 million species are under threat. Here are 5 ways we speed up extinctions
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Pandas’ share of protein calories from bamboo rivals wolves’ from meat
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Tiny microplastics travel far on the wind
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Chickens stand sentinel against mosquito-borne disease in Florida
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How emus and ostriches lost the ability to fly
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Bacteria can be coaxed into making the toughest kind of spider silk
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In a first, a fossilized egg is found preserved inside an ancient bird
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Why kids may be at risk from vinyl floors and fire-resistant couches
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DNA from extinct red wolves lives on in some mysterious Texas coyotes
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Being messy on the inside keeps metamaterials from folding under stress
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This honeybee parasite may be more of a fat stealer than a bloodsucker
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Desalination pours more toxic brine into the ocean than previously thought
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A protein in mosquito eggshells could be the insects’ Achilles’ heel
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Satellites make mapping hot spots of ammonia pollution easier
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Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees versus 2 has big benefits, the IPCC says
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Giraffes inherit their spots from their mothers
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Sea level rise doesn’t necessarily spell doom for coastal wetlands
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A new hydrogen-rich compound may be a record-breaking superconductor
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A fossil mistaken for a bat may shake up lemurs’ evolutionary history
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A filter that turns saltwater into freshwater just got an upgrade
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A resurrected gene may protect elephants from cancer
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Fossil teeth show how a mass extinction scrambled shark evolution
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What leech gut bacteria can tell us about drug resistance
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This amber nugget from Myanmar holds the first known baby snake fossil
An article from Science News Jul 2018
Bird poop helps keep coral reefs healthy, but rats are messing that up
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Researchers create hybrid embryos of endangered white rhinos
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This invasive tick can clone itself and suck livestock dry
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Leaf-cutter ants pick up the pace when they sense rain
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Sunshine is making Deepwater Horizon oil stick around
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Dogs carry a surprising variety of flu viruses
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Fleets of self-driving taxis could be choreographed to cut traffic
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A caterpillar outwits corn defenses by gorging on fattening ‘junk’ food
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RNA injected from one sea slug into another may transfer memories
An article from Science News May 2018
