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Death breeds life in the world’s most diverse and abundant group of animals.
At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
Much of what researchers believe about the public and effective communication is wrong.
Rather than rely on plant-derived products, biotech companies are engineering bacteria and yeast to produce ingredients for fragrances.
Are the “carcinogenic” chemicals that are produced when foods are cooked really cause for concern?
Guppies with experimentally shrunken brains produced more offspring than guppies bred for larger noggins, confirming a long suspected tradeoff of bigger brains.
A new study finds that an Alaskan population of the fish has quickly evolved in response to warming temperatures.
Potential biases in scientific data collection and analysis should be minimized.
A nuclear war could have profound effects on crops yields around the world, according to a new study.
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