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Frogs May Have Something in Common With Bees

On warm evenings near Rio de Janeiro, you might find milk fruit trees covered in brownish-orange frogs. While many frogs eat insects, the...

Why Have One ‘Impossible’ Ring Around Your World When You Could Have Two?

Why It MattersScientists still do not fully understand how dust and gas in the early solar system coalesced into moons and planets.Like the...

What Can You Do With a Menagerie of Mammal Genomes?

To learn more about humans, a large international team of scientists spent years tracking down some of the strangest creatures on Earth. They...

What Cheetahs, Armadillos and Whales Revealed About Human DNA

It has been 20 years since scientists put together the first rough draft of the human genome, the three billion genetic letters of...

Meet the Climate Hackers of Malawi

When it comes to growing food, some of the smallest farmers in the world are becoming some of the most creative farmers in...

Why Are Insects Drawn to Light? A Perennial Question Gets a New Answer.

Moths and other insects are drawn to lights at night as reliably as planets orbit stars.Entomologists have long exploited this fact by setting...

Climate Change’s Fingerprints Turn Up in Parched East Africa

Two and a half years of meager rain have shriveled crops, killed livestock and brought the Horn of Africa, one of the world’s...

Ex-Harvard Professor Sentenced in China Ties Case

BackgroundDr. Lieber, now 64, had been chairman of Harvard’s chemistry and chemical biology department. For his work on nanotechnology, he had been seen...

A Century-Old Vaccine Fails to Protect Against Covid

An old tuberculosis vaccine known to bolster the immune system did not prevent Covid infections among health care workers, scientists reported on Thursday.But...

New Rules for Power Plants Could Give Carbon Capture a Boost. Here’s How.

Some critics worry that complicated new carbon capture projects are vulnerable to cost overruns that could cause electricity prices for consumers to spike....

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