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DNA analysis of soil from paw prints could help save Sumatra’s tigers | CNN

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Netflix’s “Tiger King” exposed how tigers were being abused and exploited. This Sunday at 10 p.m. ET,…

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Rare species of bear gives birth to 2 cubs at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

[ad_1] Two Andean bear cubs were born in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 15, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute…

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Scientists Reexamine Why Zebra Stripes Mysteriously Repel Flies

[ad_1] For the current study, Tombak, then a PhD candidate at Princeton, and her team wanted to test stripe width…

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To Ditch Pesticides, Scientists Are Hacking Insects’ Sex Signals

[ad_1] Proving that this way of producing pheromones works, and that they’re effective, has taken almost a decade. “We are…

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Sorry, Prey. Black Widows Have Surprisingly Good Memory

[ad_1] Black widows must despise Clint Sergi. While working on his PhD in biology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sergi…

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The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here

[ad_1] Comparing those genomes to those of people without schizophrenia has allowed investigators to uncover multiple genes that have a…

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The Secret Microscope That Sparked a Scientific Revolution

[ad_1] “It almost seems as if Van Leeuwenhoek knew that a new microworld was to unfold,” Cocquyt told me. One…

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A Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill

[ad_1] In a physics lab in Amsterdam, there’s a wheel that can spontaneously roll uphill by wiggling. This “odd wheel”…

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Philadelphia’s Diatom Archive Is a Way, Way, Wayback Machine

[ad_1] However, in recent decades, the sea has dominated the once-dynamic coastal margin, propelling farther inland as sea levels rise.…

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To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte

[ad_1] This was slow going. “We spent a lot of time, probably the first couple of years, really just working…

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