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A prairie dog group scans for predators in South Dakota.

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Social Networking Prairie Dog Style

Prairie dog kisses might help spread the plague, and stopping the most promiscuous rodents could curb that disease’s reach

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Antibiotic Resistant “Nightmare Bacteria” Have Escaped the Hospital

Infections with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae aren’t always tied to the healthcare system

A fifth of Australia is desert.

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Blame Climate Change for Australia’s 30-Year Long Dry Spell

Human-induced climate change is driving a drop in rainfall across southern Australia

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Lady Worms, Beware: Pick the Wrong Mate, End Up Dead

Sperm from the wrong species of worm will eat through a female worm’s innards

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This Deep-Sea Octopus Tended Her Eggs For More Than Four Years

It appears that the octopus mom also largely refrained from eating over those 53 months

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Sardines Take 400 Times Less Fuel To Catch Than Shrimp

Your shrimp cocktail is secretly a major waste of fossil fuel

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If You’re Feeling Stressed After Work, Skip the TV

People who arrived home stressed and then watched TV or played video games wound up feeling guilty about those activities

The CAP canal is pictured running past houses and businesses it feeds in Scottsdale, Ariz. The Central Arizona Project is a 336-mile, man-made river of canals that delivers water from the Colorado River basin uphill to service water needs in southern Arizona, including Tucson and Phoenix.

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Don’t Bank on Groundwater to Fight Off Western Drought—It’s Drying Out, Too

Water losses in the west have been dominated by dwindling groundwater supplies

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Researchers Crack the Code of First Impressions

Mathematics identifies the subtle facial features that influence how we judge others

Across the country, families lost houses like this one—and a substantial portion of their household wealth—during the financial crisis.

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The Average American Household Lost a Third of Its Net Worth During the Recession

A new study shows how much, exactly, the 2008 recession contributed to rising inequality in America

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DDT Is Still Killing Birds in Michigan

DDT was banned in the United States more than 40 years ago, but it’s still killing birds in a town in Michigan

This Monet reproduction is composed of tiny bits of metal assembled on the micron scale.

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This Monet Isn’t the Real Thing—But It’s Awfully Close

Nanoprinters can duplicate great artwork with remarkable precision

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How a Flock of 400 Flying Birds Manages to Turn in Just Half a Second

The birds’ patterns of movement are surprisingly similar to that of superfluid helium

The Bahamian Andros Island, surrounded by the bright blue of Great Bahama Bank.

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Saharan Dust Helped Build the Bahamas

Minerals blown off the Sahara fuel the microbes that undergird the Bahaman ecosystem

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Schadenfreude is a Childish Emotion

Even two-year-olds find the twisted joy in others’ pain

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Your Dog Might Be Jealous

How much is that green-eyed doggy in the window?

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Moose Spit is Antifungal

Moose may use their antifungal saliva to keep the fungus on their favorite foods in check

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Lasers Make a Fiber Optic Cable Out of Thin Air

Just like a fiber optic cable, without the physical cable

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Playing Outside Enhances Kids’ Love of Nature and Animals

Exposure to the great outdoors could also influence kids’ ideas about the importance of conservation

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Science Proves That Kids’ Eyes Really Are Bigger Than Their Stomachs

Adults around the world uniformly clean their plates at dinner time, but not kids

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