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More wet and dry weather extremes projected with global warming
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When it comes to regrowing tails, neural stem cells are the key
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Drilling results reveal global climate influence on basin waters in young rifts
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Unexpected side effect to cleaning up urban air discovered
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Red squirrels making comeback as return of pine marten spells bad news for invasive...
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