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NSF statement on President’s FY 2022 discretionary budget request

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Hot time, summer in the city: Growing threat of extreme heat on urban populations

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For unvaccinated, reinfection by COVID-19 is likely, study finds

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Machine learning uncovers 'genes of importance' in agriculture

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NSF Statement on 2021 Nobel Laureates in Science

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Climate change may erode frogs' ability to withstand salt pollution

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Giant Waikato penguin: Schoolkids discover new species

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Hummingbirds can smell their way out of danger

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Baby birds tune in from egg

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Study shows how aspen forests maintain the diversity needed to adapt to changing environments

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Researchers discover hidden SARS-CoV-2 'gate' that opens to allow COVID-19 infection

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Cities are making mammals bigger

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Study of structural variants in cacao genomes yields clues about plant diversity

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For larger, older trees, it’s all downhill from here

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Dosing the coast: Baltimore County's leaky pipes are medicating the Chesapeake Bay

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Uncovering the botanical history of the Guadalupe Mountains

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For trees, carbs are key to surviving insect defoliation

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Study takes unprecedented peek into life of 17,000-year-old mammoth

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Genetics team aims for better corn plants

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Trapped salt water caused mangrove death after Hurricane Irma

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Bugs find bats to bite thanks to bacteria

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Southeastern U.S. herbaria digitize 3 million specimens, now freely available online

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Drought changes rice root microbiome

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The 2,000-year-old mystery of a havoc-wreaking worm

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Seven degrees from one trillion species of microbes

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Why is the eastern monarch butterfly disappearing?

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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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