Pollinating insects are an industrious bunch, working tirelessly as they flit from blossom to blossom. But for insects like the short-lived, fig-pollinating…
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Topic Focus Trapped in a Fig: The Perils and Payoffs of Pollination
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Aggregators The RosettaCon 2012 Collection: Rosetta Developers Meet the Challenges in Macromodeling Head On
Reproducibility continues to be one of the major challenges facing computational biologists today. Complicated experiments, massive data sets, scantily described protocols, and…
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Topic Focus (Don’t) Watch that Mouth: Listen Up by Looking Away
A dish clatters to the floor, and you spin around to view the damage. A friend calls out from beyond your line…
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Topic Focus A Way with Words: Data Mining Uncloaks Authors’ Stylistic Flair
As any writer or wordsmith knows, searching for the right word can be a painful struggle. Here’s comforting news: word choice may…
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Aggregators Predicting Movie Box Office Success Using Wikipedia
It’s Friday evening and perhaps you’re planing to watch a movie, but will the new release you choose be a blockbuster or…
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Fun Lasting love? Research on Making and Breaking Romantic Relationships
Romance is in the air. Vacation getaways, cool breezes, and warm nights can set the scene for a good, old fashioned ‘summer…
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Topic Focus Crisis in the Late Bronze Age Triggered by Environmental Change
What does it take to topple a civilization, or a whole group of them? Over three thousand years ago, agriculture and trade-based…
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Fun Young Cape Fur Seals Handle Heat with Built-in Air Conditioning
One of the easiest ways to find relief from scorching summer heat is a quick dip in the water. Whether tiger, hippo…
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Aggregators Coffee Plants Don’t Like It Hot
Guest blogger Atreyee Bhattacharya is a science correspondent and climate scientist, currently a research affiliate at the Department of Earth and Planetary…
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Collections Announcing the Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection
Post authored by Collection Curator Ben Bond-Lamberty The ecological impacts of climate change are broad and diverse, and include alterations to species&rsquo…
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Topic Focus Putting the brakes on blood clots
Whether you get a paper cut or have a bad accident, our bodies respond with a near-universal command: when bleeding, clot. Within…
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Fun Summertime Fun in the Sun
We are well into the summer months so discard those winter doldrums and get active! To help you get in the mood…