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Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared

Discovery

Lifting the economy on hawks' wings

Discovery

Pollution-related disease presents global environmental challenge

Discovery

Leafcutter ants' success due to more than crop selection

News From the Field

New study sheds light (and some shade) on anole diversification

News From the Field

Scientists find the first bird beak, right under their noses

News From the Field

Two decades of hurricanes change coastal ecosystems: increase algae blooms, fish kills, dead zones

Discovery

Federal partners release Interagency Strategic Plan for Microbiome Research

News Release

Mosquitoes bite when thirsty, too

News From the Field

Study could spawn better ways to combat crop-killing fungus

News From the Field

Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon

Discovery

Grassland plants react unexpectedly to high levels of carbon dioxide

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Triple gene combinations study could help predict risk of disease

News From the Field

Unprecedented wave of large mammal extinctions linked to ancient humans

News From the Field

Great Barrier Reef corals can survive global warming for another century

News From the Field

Bugged out by climate change

News From the Field

Marine fish won an evolutionary lottery 66 million years ago, UCLA biologists report

News From the Field

Warming climate could speed forest re-growth in Eastern US

News From the Field

Study reveals declining Central American frog species are bouncing back

News From the Field

Where's the greatest risk of a mosquito bite in Baltimore? A surprising answer

Discovery

Human drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

News From the Field

Rats, cats and people trade-off as main course for mosquitoes in Baltimore, Md.

News From the Field

New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth’s bedrock

News Release

NSF announces 2018 winners for Generation Nano: Superheroes Inspired by Science

News Release

New butterfly species discovered nearly 60 years after it was first collected

News From the Field

New source of global nitrogen discovered

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New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920

News Release

Paleontologists put the bite on an ancient reptile from New England

News From the Field

Team discovers a significant role for nitrate in the Arctic landscape

News From the Field