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This Researcher Captured Air from the Amazon in Dive-Bombs--And Found Grim Clues That the Forest Is Dying Sep 22, 2023

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One researcher has been hiring planes to strafe the sky over the Amazon rain forest to collect the air coming off the trees, and what she is finding is cause for alarm.

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Should You Get a Blood Test For Alzheimer's? Sep 20, 2023

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Consumers can now get easy tests for Alzheimer’s. But these tests may not really help patients that much—yet.

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Ada Limón's Poem for Europa, Jupiter's Smallest Galilean Moon Sep 18, 2023

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U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón discusses her involvement in NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and the inspiration behind her poem, which will travel onboard the spacecraft.

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How the Woolly Bear Caterpillar Does Something Pretty Amazing to Survive the Winter Sep 15, 2023

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Caterpillars can’t regulate their body temperatures, so they have to come up with a totally different strategy to make it through the coldest months of the year.

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Bees 'Buzz' in More Ways Than You Might Think Sep 13, 2023

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A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather.

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Scientists Are Beginning to Learn the Language of Bats and Bees Using AI Sep 11, 2023

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The new field of digital bioacoustics is using machine learning to try decipher animal speak, including honeybee toots and quacks and whoops.

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Trying to Train Your Brain Faster? Knowing This Might Help with That Sep 08, 2023

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Are you working really hard to learn something? Remember this counterintuitive fact, and you might improve your learning curve.

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This Tick Bite Makes You Allergic to Red Meat Sep 06, 2023

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The bite of the lone star tick makes people allergic to a sugar found in mammalian products, and many doctors don’t know about it.

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This Lesbian Monkey Love Triangle Tells Us Something Really Interesting about Darwin's 'Paradox' Sep 04, 2023

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A “Darwinian paradox” is that homosexual activity occurs even though it does not lead to or aid in reproduction. But if you visit three capuchin monkeys in Los Angeles, they’ll show you how beneficial their liaisons are.

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What the Luddites Can Teach Us about AI Sep 01, 2023

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The Luddites did not hate technology—but they did fight the way it was used to exploit humans.

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