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New framework for evaluating snow droughts around the world

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More carbon in the oceans can lead to smaller fish

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Research on Tasmanian devil offers new insights into tackling human cancer

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Why it's important to save parasites

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First gene knockout in a cephalopod

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In a warming world, New England's trees are storing more carbon

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Study reveals contamination of air and environment near patients with COVID-19

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Changing seawater hints at future for adhesives from ocean species

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Rising temps put desert shrub in high-efficiency mode

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For rufous hummingbirds, migration routes may differ

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Lightning strikes more than 100 million times per year in the tropics

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Genetics could help preserve coral reefs

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Researchers discover two paths of aging, and new insights on promoting healthspan

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Research unlocks genetic key to sunflower resilience

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Climate intervention offers some crop benefits, but abruptly ending it may backfire

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Burrowing crabs reshaping salt marshes

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How a memory game could help us understand brain injury

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Texas will soon face driest conditions of last 1,000 years

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Major group of flowering plants is evolving twice as quickly in temperate zones as in the tropics

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Biologists find 10 lineages of fish able to live in highly toxic streams

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Desert algae shed light on desiccation tolerance in green plants

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Warming reduces trees' ability to slow climate change

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New director takes helm at National Science Foundation

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New Argentine fossils uncover history of celebrated conifer group

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Light-activated 'CRISPR' enables fast, precise gene editing and detection of DNA repair

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Plants are marvelous chemists, the gardenia's DNA shows

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Researchers study catastrophic disease events in marine mammals

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Wildlife territorial behavior could play larger role in disease spread than thought

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The DNA that gave us 100 different kinds of tomatoes

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