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- Mystery Meteorite: The case for (and against) a rock from Mercury
- Hard Times for Theorists in a Post-Higgs World: The Large Hadron Collider’s big success leaves no clear avenue for new physics
- In the Eye of the Tiger: Global spread of Asian tiger mosquito could fuel outbreaks of tropical disease in temperate regions
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- Cool Jobs: Moved by life: Biologically inspired robots travel — naturally
- Infection time: Disease is more severe when it hits in the morning, at least in mice
- Explainer: Our bodies’ internal clocks: Biological clocks determine hunger, sleepiness and other daily rhythms
Ecology
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Oceanographers are finding more patches of floating polymers, some up to 20 meters deep.
G. Proskurowski, Sea Education Association
- When birds sneak eggs into others' nest, mom and dad can learn to find their own.
- Intensifying agriculture may not necessarily return farmland to nature without policy help.
- A fresh look at a fungus-insect partnership that biologists have studied for more than a century uncovers a role for bacteria.
- Streamside wildflower holds back on leaf competition when roots meet close kin
- Scientists have traced the reappearance of cotton pests in west-central Texas to a tropical storm.
- Study tracks European eels for the first 1,300 kilometers of their migration.
- New study may help scientists improve control of invasive fire ants
- Yellow crazy ants can get so annoying that birds don’t eat their normal fruits, a new study finds.
- Most of the birds in California’s Sierra Nevada range are on the move in response to recent climate changes.
- DNA of infamous Phytophthora microbe reveals big, quick-changing zones, possibly the key to the pathogen’s vexing adaptability
- Page ranking system inspires algorithm for predicting food webs’ vulnerability.
- Infection may be driving ants to set their jaws in low-hanging leaves before they die.
- Some of the ocean’s small swimmers may be having a big impact on ocean mixing.
- A new study links the simian immunodeficiency virus to serious AIDS-like illness in a wild population.
- In the wild, a culinary kick comes with risks to the plant.
- Understanding long-term changes in wildfire patterns challenges scientists from multiple disciplines.
- Scientists have revealed new details about the genes — and the goo — that enable luminescent bacteria to colonize their symbiotic marine partner.
- A new analysis suggests storm damage returns millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year.
- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar releases a review of U.S. bird populations.
- Even a small amount of hybridizing may cause problems for the native westslope cutthroat trout.
- A new study finds that a particular microbe makes caterpillars susceptible to the insecticide.
- In an experiment, scientists show that, although it takes generations, fish can rebound from evolutionary pressures created by selective harvesting, which has pushed some populations to become small and slow-growing.
- The circle of life continues thanks to the carbon cycle.
- Census of Marine Life offers a preview of massive international census gives fuller count, shows some sea species at both poles.
- When angiosperms diversified 100 million years ago, they opened new niches for ants, plants and frogs.
- Unexpected rates of warming threaten to change Antarctica and pose a threat to the survival of some of its penguins.
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