A type of scallop expels water and waste through a sort of cough that could reveal clues about water quality.
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Nominated as a write-in candidate as a protest against the anti-science incumbent, famed naturalist Charles Darwin won 4,000 congressional votes in a Georgia county.
The US Department of Agriculture announces a partnership of 10 study sites to help promote long-term research.
Scientists ask the NSF to reconsider a granting mechanism they say could hurt junior faculty.
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Salt compounds produced by plant and fungus species help form organic aerosols that form clouds and produce rain.
Competition for resources between mothers- and daughters-in-law having children at the same time could have been a driver for the emergence of menopause.
A polar bear in a German zoo dies after contracting a virus normally found in zebras.
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