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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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In the past 15 years, climate change has transformed the Arctic
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An enormous supervolcano may be hiding under Alaskan islands
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Hayabusa2’s asteroid dirt may hold clues to the early solar system
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Technology and natural hazards clash to create ‘natech’ disasters
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STEVE may be even less like typical auroras than scientists thought
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Once hurricanes make landfall, they’re lingering longer and staying stronger
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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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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of an asteroid
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Even the deepest, coldest parts of the ocean are getting warmer
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The asteroid Bennu’s brittle boulders may make grabbing a sample easier
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Before migrating, some blue whales switch up the timing of their songs
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Underwater earthquakes’ sound waves reveal changes in ocean warming
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A stray molar is the oldest known fossil from an ancient gibbon
An article from Science News Sep 2020
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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Bering Sea winter ice shrank to its lowest level in 5,500 years in 2018
An article from Science News Aug 2020
Carbon dioxide from Earth’s mantle may trigger some Italian earthquakes
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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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Many U.S. neighborhoods with the worst air 40 years ago remain the most polluted
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An ancient skull hints crocodiles swam from Africa to the Americas
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COVID-19 lockdowns dramatically reduced seismic noise from humans
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A giant underground motion sensor in Germany tracks Earth’s wobbles
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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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Two lightning megaflashes shattered distance and duration records
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A Siberian town hit 100 degrees, setting a new record for the Arctic Circle
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Machine learning helped demystify a California earthquake swarm
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Smoke from Australian fires rose higher into the ozone layer than ever before
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Rapid sea level rise could drown protective mangrove forests by 2100
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These tube-shaped creatures may be the earliest known parasites
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Chicxulub collision put Earth’s crust in hot water for over a million years
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Pollen-deprived bumblebees may speed up plant blooming by biting leaves
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Daily global CO2 emissions dropped dramatically as COVID-19 kept people home
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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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Greenland and Antarctica are gaining ice inland, but still losing it overall
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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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Climate change made a southwestern U.S. drought one of the worst in 1,200 years
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The Great Barrier Reef is suffering its most widespread bleaching ever recorded
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Beets bleed red but a chemistry tweak can create a blue hue
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Roughly 90 million years ago, a rainforest grew near the South Pole
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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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Ordering from a local store can curb online shopping’s CO2 emissions
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Fossil fuel use may emit 40 percent more methane than we thought
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Climate change may be speeding up ocean circulation
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Tiny meteorites suggest ancient Earth had a carbon dioxide–rich atmosphere
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Fed by human-caused erosion, many river deltas are growing
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A 2.2-billion-year-old crater is Earth’s oldest recorded meteorite impact
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2019 was the second-warmest year on record
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Climate change is bringing earlier springs, which may trigger drier summers
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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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Flooding Earth’s atmosphere with oxygen may not have needed a triggering event
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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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Climate-warming CO2 emissions will hit a record high in 2019
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California landfills are belching high levels of climate-warming methane
An article from Science News Nov 2019
Silver-backed chevrotains have been ‘rediscovered’ by science after 29 years
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A toe bone hints that Neandertals used eagle talons as jewelry
An article from Science News Oct 2019
A new estimate triples the number of people in the path of rising seas
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Aye-ayes just got weirder with the discovery of a tiny, sixth ‘finger’
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Powerful storms may be causing offshore ‘stormquakes’
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How tardigrades protect their DNA to defy death
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Losing genes may have helped whales’ ancestors adapt to life under the sea
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Hurricane Lorenzo hit Category 5 farther east than any other storm
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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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Ancient crystal growths in caves reveal seas rose 16 meters in a warmer world
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How ancient oceans of magma may have boosted Earth’s oxygen levels
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Iron sulfide may be keeping Mercury’s core toasty and its magnetic field alive
An article from Science News Aug 2019
Ocean acidification could weaken diatoms’ glass houses
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Climate change may make El Niño and La Niña less predictable
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Big and bold wasp queens may create more successful colonies
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Fluid in superdeep diamonds may be from some of Earth’s oldest unchanged material
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Mercury levels in fish are rising despite reduced emissions
An article from Science News Aug 2019
Monkeys can use basic logic to decipher the order of items in a list
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The Arctic is burning and Greenland is melting, thanks to record heat
An article from Science News Jul 2019
U.S. wells are pumping up groundwater from increasing depths
An article from Science News Jul 2019
Planting trees could buy more time to fight climate change than thought
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Night-shining ‘noctilucent’ clouds have crept south this summer
An article from Science News Jul 2019
3 questions seismologists are asking after the California earthquakes
An article from Science News Jul 2019
The largest seaweed bloom ever detected spanned the Atlantic in 2018
An article from Science News Jul 2019
