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Invasive Carp Look for Love in all the Right Places
Posted: March 13, 2015If you’re looking for love and there are ten bars in town, your chance of meeting someone is 10 per cent. In a town with only one bar, your odds…
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Success Story: Baby Tortoises Return to Pinzón
Posted: March 13, 2015Wonderful news! Ten baby tortoises have been spotted on the Galapagos island of Pinzón, in Ecuador. This might not seem like such a big deal–after all, aren’t the Galapagos famous for…
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What Lake Tahoe tells us about a changing climate
Posted: March 13, 2015A recently published study on how natural and man-made sources of nitrogen are recycled through the Lake Tahoe ecosystem provides new information on how global change may affect the iconic…
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Princeton University geologists mapping the Earth's mantle in 3D
Posted: March 12, 2015When a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck central China's Sichuan province in 2008, seismic waves rippled through the region, toppling apartment houses in the city of Chengdu and swaying office buildings 1,000…
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Social Status has Impact on Wild Animals
Posted: March 12, 2015High social status has its privileges when it comes to aging – even in wild animals.In a first-of-its-kind study involving a wild species, Michigan State University researchers have shown that…
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Why post-fire logging is important
Posted: March 12, 2015Harvesting fire-killed trees is an effective way to reduce woody fuels for up to four decades following wildfire in dry coniferous forests, a U.S. Forest Service study has found.
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Bristol University sheds new light on early terrestrial vertebrate
Posted: March 12, 2015The first 3D reconstruction of the skull of a 360 million-year-old near-ancestor of land vertebrates has been created by scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge. The 3D skull, which…
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Saturn's moon Enceladus is spewing tiny silica grains, new study finds
Posted: March 11, 2015A new study by a team of Cassini mission scientists led by the University of Colorado Boulder have found that microscopic grains of rock detected near Saturn imply hydrothermal activity…
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Could China & India's Air Pollution be behind our Cold, Snowy Winters?
Posted: March 11, 2015It's March. It's freezing. And there's half a foot of snow on the ground. When is this winter going to end?Many scientists think that climate change might be one cause…
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Feds Propose to Protect 330,000 Acres for Black Pine Snakes
Posted: March 11, 2015The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect 338,100 acres of critical habitat in Mississippi and Alabama for black pine snakes, whose southeastern, longleaf pine forests have been reduced to…
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