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Like a Tree, Growth Rings Show Lobster Age
For the first time, scientists have figured out how to determine the age of a lobster — by counting...
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Cracked Wheat: Scientists Make Inroads Into Wheat Genome
A consortium of scientists announced they had made major progress in deciphering the genome of bread wheat, a vital...
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Prehistoric Human Feces Biomarkers Help Track Ancient Climate Change
The race is on to blame everything related to ecological change on human footprints – even the past can...
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Namib Desert Beetle Inspires Self-Filling Water Bottle
A U.S. start-up has turned to nature to help bring water to arid areas by drawing moisture from the...
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Europe’s First Farmers Came, Then Went
The first farmers who swept into Europe 6000 to 7000 years ago may have grown too big for their...
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World Bank Warns of ‘4 Degree’ Threshold
The World Bank is urging stepped-up efforts to meet world carbon reduction goals after looking at what it says...
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Early Human Ancestors Ate Grass
Early human ancestors in central Africa 3.5 million years ago ate a diet of mostly tropical grasses and sedges,...
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Shaping the Future for Food Security
Climate change, population growth and competing demands for land and resources are putting great pressure on the world’s food...
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Did Eating Meat Make Us Human?
Fragments of a 1.5-million-year-old skull from a child recently found in Tanzania suggest early hominids weren’t just occasional carnivores...