Despite a late start in his field, Kerry Knudsen might know more about lichens than anyone alive today.
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This powerful visualisation of climate change by climatologist Ed Hawkins plots the global average temperature for every month since 1850. The farther from the center, the hotter the month.
The National Academy of Sciences is urging people to focus less on the process and more on the product.
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Researchers used high-speed cameras to film tree frogs landing on a stick using unique toe pads while doing cartwheels and belly flops.
What if you went back in time and killed your own grandfather? Would you still be born? Or would you have thus killed yourself?
Can we conquer disease without concentrating wealth in a precious few pockets? Not-so-distant history offers a clear and encouraging answer.
Gut dwellers signal immune cells to stay calm and dial down inflammation.
Huge supercolliders aren’t the only way to search for new physical phenomena. A new generation of experiments that can fit on a tabletop are probing the nature of dark matter and dark energy and searching for evidence of extra dimensions.
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