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THE HOT SECRET BEHIND A DEEP-SEA ‘OCTOPUS GARDEN’

Thousands of usually solitary octopuses gather to brood eggs in a special spot
off California

Stephanie Pappas

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TROPICAL FORESTS MAY BE GETTING TOO HOT FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS

When trees get too hot, energy production in their leaves breaks down

Meghan Bartels

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HERE’S HOW YOU GO BIRDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

If you really want to challenging your bird identification skills, try using
them at night, when bird calls are less than 100 milliseconds long.

Jacob Job

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CHANDRAYAAN-3 MAKES HISTORIC TOUCHDOWN ON THE MOON

The successful lunar landing of the Chandrayaan-3 mission makes India only the
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Jatan Mehta

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THE HOT SECRET BEHIND A DEEP-SEA ‘OCTOPUS GARDEN’

Thousands of usually solitary octopuses gather to brood eggs in a special spot
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Stephanie Pappas

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TROPICAL FORESTS MAY BE GETTING TOO HOT FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS

When trees get too hot, energy production in their leaves breaks down

Meghan Bartels

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HERE’S HOW YOU GO BIRDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

If you really want to challenging your bird identification skills, try using
them at night, when bird calls are less than 100 milliseconds long.

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NO ONE STUDIED MENSTRUAL PRODUCT ABSORBENCY REALISTICALLY UNTIL NOW

A new study reveals the absorbency of pads, tampons and other menstrual products
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Joanna Thompson

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HOW A COLOR-CHANGING HOGFISH KNOWS WHETHER ITS SKIN IS WHITE, BROWN OR
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A hogfish may provide the first example of a vertebrate with specialized
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Although Arecibo Observatory is slated to become an education center,
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Improved DNA analysis has updated thinking on the skin color, ancestry, and more
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This 150-year-old tree has been a cultural hub for Hawaii’s town of Lahaina for
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A new type of chemistry performed at very cold temperatures on very small
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