Forest Roundup
Scientists are enlisting the cheese industry in fighting a tree-destroying bug.
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Using ultrasound to find expensive wood, how cheese is helping to fight a tree fungus, the connection between prostate cancer and a lack of male sons, the division in your brain, and the secret to a ultra-white beetle.
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Small distractions could be big trouble, the effects of cell phone waves on our health, how nature cleans itself, eels and grouper hunt together, and squirrels and spruce trees outwit each other for seeds.
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Giving blood could be good for you, backpacks are better with bungee cords, taking a census of the air's bacteria, happiness helps ward off colds and flu, genetic engineering protects against mad cow disease
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The secret of a Stradivarius violin, how giraffes block a head rush, using bees for homeland security, saving seagrass, and a strange new ingredient in the interstellar soup.
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Something unexpected at the North Pole, World Toilet Day and other toilet news, why golf balls have dimples but racecars don't, how a father's pheromones may control his daughter's growth, and using satellites for archaeology in Egypt.
Arctic Forests
Scientists haven't yet discovered Santa Claus at the North Pole, but they've found something that they think is just about as surprising.
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How wool is made washable, the earliest horse corral, a parasite that prefers baby boys, a medical robot snail, and how solar flares can affect GPS.
Plant Friends Roundup
The microbes that live in plants' cells may be essential to their well-being.
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The better way to commute, resetting your internal food clock, why we don't remember our dreams, fungi that live in plants, and the problem with some drug companies' patient headhunting practices.
Medicinal Plants Roundup
Scientists are finding more and more plant compounds that fight disease.
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The world's sharpest needle, a cancer treatment from a war paint plant, how men are like dogs, an outdoor greenhouse, and your brain's reaction to exercise.
Darwin’s Finches
The finches that Darwin discovered in the Galapagos are still yielding new data on evolution.
Soil Roundup
Chances are dirt's something you want less of in your life. But good dirt's actually something people need a lot more of.
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Eggs that can run away, a slobber stress test for babies, humans' speedy emotional rebounds, an international congress of dirt, and where dinosaurs come from.
Plant Growth Roundup
A new finding could someday put an end to that endless summertime chore: mowing the lawn.
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Testosterone could treat multiple sclerosis, the end to mowing lawns, nature's super-strong superglue, finding dread in the brain, and the connection between vaccines and beer.
Plant Chemical Roundup
We learn about a tiny weed that may be wreaking havoc in your backyard.
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Flat light bulbs, teens with migraines, what makes cells alive, reversing cell division, and how the garlic mustard plant kills trees.
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A super memory, elephant dung and the oil crisis, girls go online, navigating the asteroid belt, and heart-healthy bacon.
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Timid football coaches, the link between obesity and pain, the poorest crop, a new anthrax detector, and corals on carbs.