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In Pakistan, dams and drainage has reduced the endangered Indus River dolphin’s range by 80 percent
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The Defense Department is funding research to see if "neuroprosthetics" implanted in the brain can heal damaged memory.
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Researchers are using toy bricks to study how plants react to environmental factors.
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This interactive map will show you the sources of the planet's precious metals
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This is the latest in a string of studies suggesting that some pesticides impact birds as well as pollinators
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The smoothness of the landscape and the local climate—not the materials of the concrete jungle—govern the urban heat island effect, a new study finds
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Corals with significant energy reserves that welcome all types of symbiotic algae species won’t easily die if hit with multiple bleaching events
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The Gerontology Research Group catalogues on all of the world's confirmed <em>supercentenarians</em>, or persons over 110 years old
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They're not cute and cuddly, but they may be misunderstood, and scientists are rewriting the fish’s fearsome stereotype
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Features thought to be characteristic of early <em>Homo</em> lineages actually evolved before <em>Homo</em> arose. Rather, our flexible nature defines us
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Number three: Fireworks are just chemical reactions
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With wastewater injection sparking swarms of small quakes, some states are taking notice of the danger
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The surface-dwelling marine creatures regularly dive more than one mile deep, scientists find
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If they did, who could ask for anything more?
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They’re not just for kids anymore
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In the icy waters off Norway, one intrepid Scot dives deep to satisfy the latest fjord-to-table craze at Europe’s finest restaurants
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The recent capture of a notorious poacher has given hope to officials in Chad battling to save the African elephant from extinction
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Scientists project that two thirds of emperor penguin colonies will drop by 50 percent in the next century
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Before you plan a trip to the sand this summer, check out this list of the best and worst beaches, based on water quality
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Brazil's Ilha de Queimada Grande is the only home of one of the world's deadliest, and most endangered, snakes
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