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Algal blooms an emerging threat to clear lakes worldwide

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For female vampire bats, an equal chance to rule the roost

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Secret to weathering climate change could lie at our feet

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Ecologists develop a theory about how plants 'pay' their symbiotic microbes

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Scientists developing inhalable COVID-19 vaccine spray

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How landscape can affect disease transmission

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Single gene boosts climate resilience, yield and carbon capture in crops

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Scientists discover unreported plant structure

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Rocky Mountain forests burning more than any point in past 2,000 years

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Soil microbes metabolize the same polyphenols found in chocolate, wine

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Arctic rotifers still alive after 24,000 years in a frozen state

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Don't like eating greens? Blame it on Brassica domestication

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World's lakes losing oxygen as planet warms

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Dinosaur-age fossils provide new insights into origin of flowering plants

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Researchers reveal the inner workings of a viral DNA-packaging motor

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Discovery increases likelihood of growing food despite drought

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Scientists discover that coral 'winners' may now be losers

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High genomic diversity is good news for California condors

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Plankton hold secrets to preventing pandemics

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New view of species interactions offers clues to preserve threatened ecosystems

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Engineered organism could diagnose Crohn's disease flareups

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New study has scientists re-evaluating brain size and mammalian intelligence

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Corn gene boosts sugar in leaves and seeds, may lead to better crops

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Host, management, or microbial traits: Which is dominant in plant microbiome assemblages?

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Extinct 'horned' crocodile gets new spot on the tree of life

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The influence of genetic variations

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Effects of noise on plants persist over long periods

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Deep dive into key COVID-19 protein is step toward new drugs, vaccines

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Bacteria release more carbon from the ocean than previously thought

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