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Alaska trumpeter swans filling historic range
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Ocean researchers dive deeper into Puget Sound's acidification
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Lynn Margulis, Trailblazing Theorist on Evolution, Dies at 73
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The GMO that Could Have Killed Nearly All Life on Earth
some scientists a while back,”What if we could bioengineer these things to create alcohol super-efficiently and ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Researchers Describe ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Whale Survey Near Point Hope
“On that one flight we saw fin whales, 24 humpback whales, 5 killer whales and one minke whale. Reporter: So did ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve
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The Brains of the Animal Kingdom
New research shows that we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the scale of animal intelligence. ...Posted by Jack Powers -
After Osama bin Laden’s death, imagining a world without DNA evidence
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Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in mice – now for humans
Harvard scientists were surprised that they saw a dramatic reversal, not just a slowing down, of the ageing in ...Posted by Vanessa Gamino
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Spiderman on Broadway? ‘Been There, Done That,’ Say Ants
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Seth Shostak: Life, But Not As We Know It
The import of the discovery of a new arsenic-based microbe is that finding life as we don't know it will give us a ...Posted by James Jackson
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