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October 2021

Early Life on Earth

Fossilized cell remnants in 3.4 billion-year-old bedrock are from primitive microbes. 
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October 2021

Pumping Above Their Weight

Frog hoppers piercing plants with their mouthparts produce negative pressures exceeding a megapascal. 
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October 2021

Origin of Mandarin Oranges

An Okinawa citrus species arose two million years ago when the Ryukyu archipelago disconnected from Asia.
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October 2021

An Exomoon in the Making

Astronomers have detected a disk around a planet outside our Solar System for the first time.
Dragonfly with green head, bluish body, and wings angled down, perched with red leaves in background
October 2021

Lighten Up

The size of dragonfly males’ dark wing patches foreshadows their response to climate change. 
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Bright Young Coots

March 2020

Muscling Through Hibernation

March 2020

Fit to a T Cell

March 2020

Seeds in Silk Coats

March 2020

Core Discovery of Galaxy Evolution

March 2020

Neanderthal Demise

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Despite warnings by biologists and geneticists, eminent individuals and venerable institutions helped promote a false theory that led to sterilizations and genocide.

Fossilized cell remnants in 3.4 billion-year-old bedrock are from primitive microbes. 

Frog hoppers piercing plants with their mouthparts produce negative pressures exceeding a megapascal. 

An Okinawa citrus species arose two million years ago when the Ryukyu archipelago disconnected from Asia.