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Spider Fixed a Mosquito Net. When Your IQ Is Human-like #4
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What are debt-for-nature swaps and how do they work?
In the 1990s, Irish singer Bob Geldof and friends campaigned to “drop the debt,” in an effort to alleviate the economic struggles of developing nations. A decade later, €122 billion of debt was cancelled for 36 countries by G7 finance ministers.
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Do bumble bees play?
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TWiEVO 83: Evolution spreads its wings (and then loses them)
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Google will pay Arizona $85 million over illegally tracking Android users
Google will pay Arizona $85 million to settle a 2020 lawsuit, which claimed that the search giant was illegally tracking Android users..
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Animals we’ve lost: the vivid ‘waving’ frog that vanished suddenly
Chiriquí harlequin frogs went extinct in 1996 due to a fungal disease that has driven the decline of 501 amphibian species
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Daintree Rainforest Documentary in 4K | Australia Nature | Queensland | Original Documentary
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BULLET ANT CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! What is it REALLY Like?
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Fire ant rafts form because of the Cheerios effect, study concludes
Fire ants will change shape of the raft to reduce drag and adapt to fluid flows.
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Research Highlights: Pathogenic Fungus On Infected Dead Female Flies Fools Male Flies To Mate
The recognition species concept is an idea that a species is characterized by a unique fertilization system that restricts gene-flow with other species.
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Scientists discover that it takes 10 ants to form a stable raft
Ants prefer not to make a collective raft when on water. However, once there are 10 insects near each other, the so-called Cheerios effect pushes them together and is too strong to counteract
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Google's foldable Pixel phone gets a big release date update
If you’ve been eagerly hoping for a foldable version of Google’s popular Pixel smartphone, your wait may soon be over.
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Nature's response to urban sprawl
It’s a new and surprising chapter in the theory of evolution. According to recent studies, it’s in our cities, of all places, that animals and plants adapt particularly quickly to changing living conditions.
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Does This Fisherman Have the Right to Be in a Billionaire’s Backyard?
A fight along Colorado’s waterways pits an alliance of white-water rafters and amateur anglers against some of the nation’s wealthiest landowners, bruising the image of a sportsman’s paradise.
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Bird flu has killed 700 wild black vultures, says Georgia sanctuary
Exclusion zone set up around Noah’s Ark sanctuary in US amid outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 strain
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The world's smallest sea turtle nests in Louisiana for the first time in 75 years
Kemp's ridley sea turtles have hatched in Louisiana's wilds, officials say, in a victory for barrier island restoration. The tiny turtle is also believed to be the world's most endangered.
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Canada's Hudson Bay a summer refuge for thousands of belugas
Half a dozen beluga whales dive and reemerge around tourist paddle boards in Canada's Hudson Bay, a handful of about 55,000 of the creatures that migrate from the Arctic to the bay's more temperate waters each summer.
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Do spiders dream? A new study suggests they do.
Jumping spiders rapidly move their eyes and twitch during rest, suggesting they have visual dreams, never before observed in arachnids.
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The hybrid tree that conquered the world
In an unremarkable corner of London's Cheapside district, tucked away behind black wrought-iron fencing, is one of the city's oldest residents. With a towering frame and slightly stooped posture, capped with a broad thatch of leathery, star-shaped leaves, this venerable giant is thought to have presided over the city since at least the 18th Century.
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The Hidden Chaos That Lurks in Ecosystems
PHYSICAL SCIENTISTS SEEM to find the phenomenon of chaos everywhere: in the orbits of planets, in weather systems, in a river’s swirling eddies. For nearly three decades, ecologists considered chaos in the living world to be surprisingly rare by comparison. A new analysis, however, reveals that chaos is far more prevalent in ecosystems than researchers thought.
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