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5,496 results for: Forests

  1. Animals

    Robin stole credit for Batman’s deeds

    Bats turn out to be overlooked but significant eaters of insects, pests and other arthropods on shade-grown coffee farms and in tropical forests.

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  2. Chemistry

    Blueprint to repel oil and water

    The texture of surfaces could be designed so that both water and oil can bead up and thus flow off.

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  3. Tech

    Stimulus bill doesn’t ignore R&D

    Featured blog: Here's where the economic-stimulus bill would attempt to revamp and reinvigorate federally financed research.

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  4. Paleontology

    From China, the tiniest pterodactyl

    Researchers excavating the fossil-rich rocks of northeastern China have discovered yet another paleontological marvel: a flying reptile the size of a sparrow.

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  5. Earth

    Sense of Wonder Contest

    Rachel Carson aficionados will recognize The Sense of Wonder as the title of one of that environmentalist’s books. The Environmental Protection Agency is using that title to invite people young and old—literally and collaboratively—to explore that sense in poetry, essays, and photography. It’s inviting submissions from intergenerational teams “that best express the ‘Sense of Wonder’ […]

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  6. Life

    Heat sensors guide insects to a hot meal

    Bugs home in on seeds by detecting infrared radiation.

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  7. Jungle Down There: What’s a kelp forest doing in the tropics?

    Kelp, algae that grow in cold water, turn out to be surprisingly widespread in tropical seas.

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  8. Earth

    When trees grew in Antarctica

    Fossils of trees that grew in Antarctica millions of years ago suggest a growth pattern much different than modern trees.

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  9. Ecosystems

    Costs of Choked-Up Waters

    Scientists tally the economic toll of fertilizing pollutants on water quality.

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  10. Life

    Smallest known snake

    New species is thin as a spaghetti noodle but shorter.

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  11. Earth

    Tunguska, a century later

    Asteroid or comet blamed for Siberian blast of 1908

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  12. Space

    No naked black holes

    In a simulated merger, astrophysicists tried to push the boundaries of two black holes into shedding their event horizons. But the resulting black hole was still shrouded by its event horizon, through which even light can’t escape.

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