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5,502 results for: Forests

  1. Life

    How the elephant gets its infrasound

    Just blowing air through a pachyderm’s larynx produces fundamental elements of the mysterious rumblings that send messages too low for people to hear.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Tech

    Ignition Failed

    How America’s latest attempt at fusion power fizzled.

    By Andrew Grant
  3. Humans

    Rural life may boost allergy resistance

    Country kids had a greater diversity of bacteria associated with increased levels of the anti-inflammatory molecule IL-10.

    By Devin Powell
  4. Animals

    A Different Kind of Smart

    Animals’ cognitive shortcomings are as revealing as their genius.

    By Susan Milius

  5. BOOK REVIEW: Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests (David Suzuki Foundation Series) by Andrew Nikiforuk

    Review by Sid Perkins.

    By Science News
  6. Climate

    Soil’s Hidden Secrets

    Shocking discoveries from the underground may shake up climate science.

    By Charles Petit

  7. Book Review: Relics: Travels in Nature’s Time Machine by Piotr Naskrecki

    Review by Allison Bohac.

    By Science News
  8. Earth

    Bugged forests bad for climate

    Trees savaged by pine beetles are slow to recover their ecological function as greenhouse gas sponges.

    By Janet Raloff
  9. Life

    Making mouse memories

    Neuroscientists create a synthetic recollection of fear in rodents.

    By Laura Sanders
  10. Humans

    DNA unveils enigmatic Denisovans

    Technical advances amplify the genetic record of a Stone Age humanlike population, ancestors of modern Melanesians.

    By Bruce Bower

  11. SN Online

    DELETED SCENES BLOG An orbiting camera catches dust devils whirling at high speeds on the Red Planet. Read “HiRISE clocks hurricane-speed winds on Mars.” ATOM & COSMOS Astronomers get a new odometer to measure faraway objects. See “Longer cosmic ruler based on black holes.” ENVIRONMENT A warming climate could be making elk more destructive to […]

    By Science News
  12. Humans

    Oceans set stage for human evolution

    Temperature changes off the coast dried out East Africa and allowed grasslands to spread starting around 2 million years ago.

    By Alexandra Witze