Punching cows and hitting the books go together at Deep Springs, a feisty college that acts like it's run by the students and it is
They're out there in there boondocks, doing their best to record the pure sounds of nature while there are still some quiet places left
A nursery school at the Yerkes Primate Center gives lessons to the offspring of lab chimps on how to live like their wild-born relatives
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Arid lands mean life on the edge. Adaptations serve flowers well, but deserts are always mosaics of abundance and seeming sterility
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In 1940 the hard-driving Harvard biochemist Edwin Cohn broke plasma down into its different proteins and saved millions of soldiers' lives
Our historic concern for conservation now leads us into many areas related to endangered species and biodiversity
In a universe filled with prebiotic compounds,it may be only a small step for some of them to hook up in ways that lead directly to life
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When a big mainframe first showed up at Ohio State University, this member of the artfaculty began moonlighting across the quad
Gentle whale sharks roam the world's warm seas but were rarely seen until an Australian gathering place was found
Robert Davidson and Bill Reid rediscovered their past with the help of anthropologists, old books, tribal elders and a common ancestor
Honk if you've had it up to here with geese on the golf course, in your yard, all over parks and beaches. You are not the only one
While Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is history, space scientists are beginning to piece together the details of its pyrotechnic encounter with Jupiter last July
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