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5,502 results for: Forests

  1. Animals

    When a chipmunk teases a rattlesnake

    Several of the Northeast's least ferocious forest creatures taunt rattlesnakes.

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  2. Earth

    Greenhouse Plants? Vegetation may produce methane

    Lab tests suggest that a wide variety of plants may routinely do something that scientists previously thought impossible; produce methane in significant quantities in an oxygenated environment.

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  3. Paleontology

    Out of the Shadows

    An ongoing flurry of fossil finds is triggering a reevaluation of how early mammals and their close kin eked out an existence during the Age of Dinosaurs.

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  4. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2006

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2006.

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  5. Animals

    Wing Ding: Bird rubs feathers for cricketlike song

    Scientists say that they have found the first vertebrate to make its courtship music in the same way as a cricket does.

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  6. Paleontology

    Bone Hunt

    Science News reporter Sid Perkins recounts the trials and tribulations of digging for dinosaurs in central Montana.

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  7. Anthropology

    The Pirahã Challenge

    A linguist has sparked controversy with his proposal that a tribe of about 200 people living in Brazil's Amazon rain forest speaks a language devoid of counting and color terms, clauses, and other elements of grammar often considered to be universal.

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  8. Earth

    Runaway Heat?

    A variety of changes in the Arctic is making the region darker and accelerating its warming climate.

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  9. Animals

    New Mammals: Coincidence, shopping yield two species

    Researchers have identified a new species of monkey in Africa and a rodent in Asia that belongs to a new family among mammals.

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  10. Paleontology

    Amphibious Ancestors

    Newly discovered fossils from Greenland, as well as a reexamination of those of previously known creatures, are providing researchers with additional insights into ancient vertebrates' move from water to land.

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  11. Materials Science

    Nanotube carpet mimics gecko feet

    Carbon nanotubes can outdo the extraordinary sticking power of a gecko's foot hairs.

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  12. Earth

    Baking dirt to predict erosion after a fire

    Lab tests suggest that a wide variety of soils exposed to the heat of intense wildfires end up with a similar resistance to erosion, a finding that may help scientists model that process more accurately.

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