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Biologists Unlock "Black Box" to Underground World

January 2, 2013

A Brigham Young University biologist is part of a team of researchers that has unlocked the "black box" to the underground world home to billions of microscopic creatures. That first peek inside, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences--one of the top three scientific journals in the world--may well explain how the number of species in an ecosystem changes the way it functions. Full Story

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