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An article from Science News Oct 2019
Aye-ayes just got weirder with the discovery of a tiny, sixth ‘finger’
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We’ve lost 3 billion birds since 1970 in North America
An article from Science News Sep 2019
Birds fed a common pesticide lost weight rapidly and had migration delays
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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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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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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
An article from Science News Jul 2019
These fungi drug cicadas with psilocybin or amphetamine to make them mate nonstop
An article from Science News Jun 2019
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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The kilogram just got a revamp. A unit of time might be next
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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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DNA from extinct red wolves lives on in some mysterious Texas coyotes
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Prosecco production takes a toll on northeast Italy’s environment
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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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Satellites make mapping hot spots of ammonia pollution easier
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Abaca
A plant, Musa textilis, of the banana family that is valuable for its hard fiber (also known as Manila hemp) and native to Borneo and the Philippines. Abaca is one of the strongest of the hard fibers. Commercially, it is known as Manila hemp. The…
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Adaptive management
An approach to management of natural resources that emphasizes how little is known about the dynamics of ecosystems and that, as more is learned, management will evolve and improve. Adaptive management is a systematic strategy that seeks to improve…
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Addition
One of the four fundamental operations of arithmetic and algebra. The symbol + of addition is thought to be a ligature for “et,” used in a German manuscript of 1456 to denote addition. Its first printed appearance is in Johann Widman's Behennede und…
