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Financial giants can have a pivotal role for climate stability
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Modern slavery promotes overfishing
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Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument home to rich bee diversity
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‘Bionic mushrooms’ fuse nanotech, bacteria and fungi
Researchers have taken an ordinary white button mushroom from a grocery store and made it bionic, supercharging it with 3D-printed clusters of cyanobacteria that...
Woodland hawks flock to urban buffet
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Undeterred, Gulf fish spawn despite hurricane
Even a Category 4 hurricane doesn't kill the mood for coastal fish -- and that's good news for all species, as well as for...
Moths survive bat predation through acoustic camouflage fur
Moths are a mainstay food source for bats, which use echolocation to hunt their prey. Scientists are studying how moths have evolved passive defenses...
Orcasound: A citizen science tool for whale research
Computer algorithms are playing a growing role in analyzing hydrophone audio data when monitoring marine life, but human listeners can complement and enhance these...
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