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  1. Ecosystems

    Prairie Revival

    Prairie restoration is attracting interest, but because so little long-term monitoring and comparative studies have been done, researchers are still wondering whether it's really possible to re-create a prairie.

    By Leslie Allen
  2. Math

    Flying without Fractals

    A new study raises doubts about fractal patterns in animal behavior.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  3. Humans

    Letters from the December 15, 2007, issue of Science News

    Fuzzy logic Astronomer Masanori Iye of the National Observatory of Japan blames the blurry appearance of meteor trails at about 100 kilometers altitude on the fact that they were photographed with telescopes focused at infinity (“Out-of-focus find,” SN: 9/29/07, p. 205). But optics teaches that any object much farther away than the focal length of […]

    By Science News
  4. Humans

    From the December 4, 1937, issue

    The perfect beauty of frost rime, the sun's surprising influence on earth, and digging up evidence of ancient domestic cats.