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Environment

David Archer, let it go. Beavers are nature’s answer to our broken rivers | Helena Horton

The first time I laid eyes on a beaver was a couple of years ago on the Devon farm of…

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World

New 3D printing method replicates nature’s finest fibers

Researchers have been trying to find new ways to produce and replicate the various useful features observed in nature. Fine…

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Environment

Nature’s pest control workers are in peril » Yale Climate Connections

Transcript: Some people get spooked by bats. But LaRoy Brandt of Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee says these underappreciated critters…

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Health

Borrowing nature’s blueprint: How scientists replicated bone marrow

Hidden within our bones, marrow sustains life by producing billions of blood cells daily, from oxygen-carrying red cells to immune-boosting…

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Health

Nature’s instructions: How fungi make a key medicinal molecule

For roughly a century, ever since Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, fungi have proven to be a…

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Environment

A pufferfish: ‘probably nature’s greatest artist’ | Helen Sullivan

Pufferfish are cute, and most pufferfish are toxic. Like people, they spend their weeks moving between states of puffed up…

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