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How exotic mussels have turned the Great Lakes into a vast aquatic desert

The Great Takeover
Exotic mussels have pilfered the Great Lakes' food supply, creating a vast aquatic desert.
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Modern technology preserves ancient practices

Indigenous People are Deploying Drones to Preserve Land and Traditions
Indigenous communities in Panama and Guyana are using drones to help monitor deforestation, document their own land use, and fight illegal encroachment into their territories.
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After watching over Earth’s poles for decades, NASA aviators see new warnings of the chaos to come.
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Australia's extinct thylacine may have been doomed even before humans arrived to wipe them out.

Was The Thylacine Doomed Even Before Humans Arrived in Australia? - Dead Things
New research sequencing the DNA of the thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, reveals it may have been in trouble before contact with humans.
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Poison frogs can almost always find their way home, and we don't know how they do it.

Poison Frog's Homing Skills Baffle Scientists - Inkfish
When researchers deposited the little fanny-pack-wearing amphibians deep in the jungle, they were already planning a rescue mission. The poison frogs were disoriented, half a mile from home, and in dense underbrush they’d never seen before. Yet, impossibly, the frogs turned themselves in the right...
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Used tires and mosquitoes come together to solve a medical mystery.

They’re Taking Our Tires!
An unexpected meeting helps solve an epidemiological mystery.
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Last chance to receive science products in time for the Holidays

My Science Shop - Science and space related products
Your shopping destination for science and space related products.
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Inside the lab recreating our ancient ancestors' weapons.

Ancient Weaponry, Reloaded
Researchers develop new ways to discover how our oldest tech — and our brains — evolved.
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Paralyzed from the neck down, one young man can today lift weights above his head, thanks to neural stem cell treatment.

What Once Was Lost
How neural stem cells repair damage from strokes, spinal injuries and aging.
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California's Thomas Fire continues to grow and now threatens some 18,000 structures.

Appalling Satellite Images Shows SoCal Fires' Growth - ImaGeo
The obscuring smoke from the Thomas Fire—now 70 percent as large as L.A.—smothers a large swath of SoCal's coast.
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Clearing the smoke surrounding the devices

The Problem With E-Cigarettes
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Experts are uncovering millennia of history under a Turkish megacity’s outskirts

The Secrets Beneath a Suburb
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Mammals aren’t the only ones who can have a good time.

How neural stem cells repair damage from strokes, spinal injuries and aging

What Once Was Lost
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The Inka Empire ruled millions without a written language. Keeping records was a knotty situation

Unraveling a Secret
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