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Rice with Fewer Stomata Requires Less Water and is Better Suited for Climate Change

Rice plants engineered to have fewer stomata – tiny openings used for gas exchange - are more tolerant to drought and resilient to future climate change, a new study has revealed.

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How Plastic Straws Slip Through the Cracks of Waste Management

Earlier this year, a three-year-old video of researchers extracting a long, twisted tube from a reptile’s bleeding nostril went viral. To date, it has accumulated more than 30 million views and set off a moral panic.

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Big Cat Comeback: How India Is Restoring Its Tiger Population

Ullas Karanth, a senior scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, is one of the world’s premier tiger experts and a leader in the effort to restore India’s depleted tiger populations. Raised in the South India state of Karnataka, he has spent much of his professional life studying and working to bring back tigers there, starting in Nagarahole National Park in the foothills of the Western Ghats, and then across a 10,000-square-mile region of that mountain range.

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How Plants Respond to Attacks

Plants have to defend themselves against drought, enemies and disease. But different threats demand different responses. So how do plants know what’s attacking them?

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Tropical Storm Jongdari More Organized in NASA’s Terra Satellite Imagery

Tropical Storm Jongdari appeared much more organized in visible imagery from NASA’s Terra satellite when passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Time is Running Out in the Tropics - Researchers Warn of Global Biodiversity Collapse

A global biodiversity collapse is imminent unless we take urgent, concerted action to reverse species loss in the tropics, according to a major scientific study in the prestigious journal Nature.  

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New Strategy for Cancer Therapy Spells Double Trouble for Tumors

Scientists at Scripps Research have uncovered a new strategy to kill tumors, including some triple-negative breast cancers, without harming healthy cells, a discovery that could lead to more ways to treat tumors while reducing side effects.

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Harvey Samples Saddled with Antibiotic-Resistant Genes

Rice University scientists have released the first results of extensive water sampling in Houston after the epic flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey. They found widespread contamination by E. coli, likely the result of overflow from flooded wastewater treatment plants.

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Sounds of the Sun

Data from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured the dynamic movement of the Sun’s atmosphere for over 20 years. Today, we can hear the Sun’s movement — all of its waves, loops and eruptions — with our own ears.

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Fires, Floods and Satellite Views: Modeling the Boreal Forest’s Future

The 2014 megafires in Canada's Northwest Territories burned 7 million acres of forest, making it one of the most severe fire events in Canadian history.

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