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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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Four types of flames join forces to make this eerie ‘blue whirl’
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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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Smoke from Australian fires rose higher into the ozone layer than ever before
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These tube-shaped creatures may be the earliest known parasites
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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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Molecular jiggling may explain why some solids shrink when heated
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Earthy funk lures tiny creatures to eat and spread bacterial spores
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Beets bleed red but a chemistry tweak can create a blue hue
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There’s no evidence the coronavirus jumped from pangolins to people
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How Hurricane Maria’s heavy rains devastated Puerto Rico’s forests
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Australia’s wildfires have now been linked to climate change
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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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Fed by human-caused erosion, many river deltas are growing
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Climate change is bringing earlier springs, which may trigger drier summers
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Color-changing fibers help reveal mysteries of how knots work
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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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Fingerprints of climate change are increasingly appearing in extreme weather
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Licelike insects munched on dinosaur feathers around 100 million years ago
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Silver-backed chevrotains have been ‘rediscovered’ by science after 29 years
An article from Science News Nov 2019
Molecular jiggling may explain why some solids shrink when heated
An article from Science News Nov 2019
A toe bone hints that Neandertals used eagle talons as jewelry
An article from Science News Oct 2019
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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Alcohol-producing bacteria could cause liver disease in some people
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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
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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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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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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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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The kilogram just got a revamp. A unit of time might be next
An article from Science News May 2019
Deep-sea fishes’ eye chemistry might let them see colors in near darkness
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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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Why some Georgia O’Keeffe paintings have ‘art acne’
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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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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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Corn domestication took some unexpected twists and turns
An article from Science News Oct 2018
New devices could help turn atmospheric CO2 into useful supplies
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These light-loving bacteria may survive surprisingly deep underground
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Giraffes inherit their spots from their mothers
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Wildfires make their own weather, and that matters for fire management
An article from Science News Aug 2018
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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Cremated remains reveal hints of who is buried at Stonehenge
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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
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Wildfires are making extreme air pollution even worse in the northwest U.S.
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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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A big analysis of environmental data strengthens the case for plant-based diets
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Dogs carry a surprising variety of flu viruses
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Blame opioids for a fifth of young adult deaths in the United States
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As CO2 increases, rice loses B vitamins and other nutrients
An article from Science News May 2018
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
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Here’s how to use DNA to find elusive sharks
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Dogs lived and died with humans 10,000 years ago in the Americas
An article from Science News Apr 2018
This material uses energy from ambient light to kill hospital superbugs
An article from Science News Mar 2018
Humpback whale bumps have marine biologists stumped
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The last wild horses aren’t truly wild
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