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When it comes to climate, plants and animals aren't so different

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New technique has potential to protect fruit from citrus greening

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Graphene underpins a new platform to selectively ID deadly strains of bacteria

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Banded mongoose study reveals how behavior and landscape influence disease spread

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Size-selective fishing results in trade-offs between fishery yield, reproductive capacity

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Where'd you get those genes? Individual growth can vary wildly when populations interbreed

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Striking 20-year grasshopper declines tied to quality of prairie grasses

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How plants tune their greenness to light quality

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Birds of a feather not better together

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Scientists create model to predict multi-pathogen epidemics

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Not falling far from the tree: Ecologists study seed-to-seedling transition

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Parasitic worms have armies, produce more soldiers when needed

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Decarbonizing your ride for a more stable climate

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Rules of life: From a pond to the beyond

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Hurricanes fertilize mangrove forests, shape Florida Everglades

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One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years

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Hot climates to see more variability in tree leafing as temperatures rise

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The curious case of the disappearing snakes

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Love basmati rice? Scientists have now sequenced its genome

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Scientists discover how cyanobacteria thrive in low light

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National Science Foundation presents FY 2021 budget request

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Scientists discover protein that lulls algae to 'sleep'

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Everglades 'remembers' severe weather

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Weather radar records drastic drop in mayfly populations

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Study reveals evolutionary clues to honeybees' social complexity

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NSF selects 7 winners from its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea Machine prize competition

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Giant kelp gives Southern California marine ecosystems a strong foundation

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New portable tool analyzes microbes in the environment

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Prescribed fires help prairie plants flower and flourish

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Unraveling arthropod genomic diversity over 500 million years of evolution

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