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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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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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Biomedical engineers find imaging technique could become treatment for deep vein thrombosis

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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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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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