Animals and plants come in a dizzying array of colors. Current research is cracking into the remarkable structures behind nature's artistic display.
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Researchers are working to understand how often-colorless biological nanostructures give rise to some of the most spectacular technicolor displays in nature.
Domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals every year, making them a top threat to US wildlife.
A proposal to simulate all of Earth’s ecosystems is exposing a rift between small and big ecology.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
Fecal transplants outcompeted traditional antibiotics at curing a deadly intestinal infection.
Results of breast cancer drug trials are regularly spun to conceal bias and make the drugs seem more effective or less toxic than they really are.
Academics get paid handsome fees to consult with the financial industry, but run the risk of revealing confidential information that leads to illicit gains.
Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
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