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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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Health care workers and long-term care residents should get COVID-19 vaccines first
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Lonely brains crave people like hungry brains crave food
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Measles has come back with a vengeance in the last several years
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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 smartwatch app alerts users with hearing loss to nearby sounds
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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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How malaria parasites hide from the human immune system
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Why bat scientists are socially distancing from their subjects
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The FDA has approved the first treatment for Ebola
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Gene-editing tool CRISPR wins the chemistry Nobel
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Before migrating, some blue whales switch up the timing of their songs
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Antibodies made in the lab show some promise for treating COVID-19
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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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Steroids reduce deaths of critically ill COVID-19 patients, WHO confirms
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In a first, a person’s immune system fought HIV — and won
An article from Science News Aug 2020
Newly discovered cells in mice can sense four of the five tastes
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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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This dinosaur may have shed its feathers like modern songbirds
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Agriculture and fossil fuels are driving record-high methane emissions
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South Americans may have traveled to Polynesia 800 years ago
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Bizarre caecilians may be the only amphibians with venomous bites
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How to make a mouse smell a smell that doesn’t actually exist
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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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A new artificial eye mimics and may outperform human eyes
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A gene variant partly explains why Peruvians are among the world’s shortest people
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Deadly temperatures expected to arrive later this century are already here
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Some comb jellies cannibalize their young when food is scarce
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Planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbor life
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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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Toxin-producing bacteria can make this newt deadly
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Beets bleed red but a chemistry tweak can create a blue hue
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Lucy’s species heralded the rise of long childhoods in hominids
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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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Bright yellow spots help some orb weaver spiders lure their next meal
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Some West Africans may have genes from an ancient ‘ghost’ hominid
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Psilocybin may help cancer patients with depression and anxiety for years
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Fed by human-caused erosion, many river deltas are growing
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Phosphorus, a key ingredient of life, has been found in a newborn star system
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Microbes slowed by one drug can rapidly develop resistance to another
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Climate change is bringing earlier springs, which may trigger drier summers
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Injecting a TB vaccine into the blood, not the skin, boosts its effectiveness
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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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Scientists’ brains shrank a bit after an extended stay in Antarctica
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An ancient outbreak of bubonic plague may have been exaggerated
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Silver-backed chevrotains have been ‘rediscovered’ by science after 29 years
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Vitamin E acetate is a culprit in the deadly vaping outbreak, the CDC says
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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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Big dinosaurs kept cool thanks to blood vessel clusters in their heads
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How tardigrades protect their DNA to defy death
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Discovery of how cells sense oxygen wins the 2019 medicine Nobel
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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
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Human meddling has manipulated the shapes of different dog breeds’ brains
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A 3.8 million-year-old skull reveals the face of Lucy’s possible ancestors
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Big and bold wasp queens may create more successful colonies
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Even without concussions, just one football season may damage players’ brains
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Why people with celiac disease suffer so soon after eating gluten
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Monkeys can use basic logic to decipher the order of items in a list
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Boosting a gut bacterium helps mice fight an ALS-like disease
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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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Antioxidants may encourage the spread of lung cancer rather than prevent it
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Gut microbes might help elite athletes boost their physical performance
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Hyenas roamed the Arctic during the last ice age
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DNA reveals ancient Siberians who set the stage for the first Americans
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Gut bacteria may change the way many drugs work in the body
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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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How allergens in pollen help plants do more than make you sneeze
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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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A jawbone shows Denisovans lived on the Tibetan Plateau long before humans
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A global survey finds that the Arctic Ocean is a hot spot for viruses
An article from Science News Apr 2019
U.S. measles cases hit a record high since the disease was eliminated in 2000
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A new hominid species has been found in a Philippine cave, fossils suggest
An article from Science News Apr 2019
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
An article from Science News Mar 2019