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LifeHeat sensors guide insects to a hot meal
Bugs home in on seeds by detecting infrared radiation.
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LifeAvian airlines: Alaska to New Zealand nonstop
Tracked bar-tailed godwits break previous nonstop flight record for birds.
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HumansMidlife suicides are on the rise
Data gleaned from death certificates indicate that, from 1999 to 2005, middle-aged whites accounted for much of the overall increase in the U.S. suicide rate.
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PhysicsClean coal for cars has a dirty side
Getting liquid fuels from coal would likely increase carbon emissions, and certainly not reduce them.
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HumansElephants’ struggle with poaching lingers on
Even as African elephants struggle to recover from decades-old poaching, the animals face new and renewed threats today.
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LifeA more fearsome saber-toothed cat
Analyses of fossils reveal that a third, newly recognized type of saber-toothed cat — one that killed by biting large chunks of flesh from its victim instead of biting its neck and slashing the major blood vessels there —roamed the Americas about a million years ago.
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TechCoal Country’s New Foresters
New techniques may be shaving a century or two off the recovery of mined mountain tops.
By Janet Raloff -
PaleontologyHow pterosaurs took flight
Extinct flying reptiles known as pterosaurs may have taken to the air with a technique akin to leapfrogging, new research suggests.
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TechTrading Forests for Coal
Forested mountain peaks have been giving way to grassy planes in Appalachian coal country.
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ArchaeologyReally Cool History
Tales of the black band: Clues to a 4,200-year-old mystery lie frozen in icy records stored atop Mt. Kilimanjaro.
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SpaceMore problems with Hubble
Hubble’s resurrection is suspended while engineers examine two anomalies.
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