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A sharing economy for plants: Seed libraries are sprouting up
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The equivalence test: A new way for scientists to tackle so-called negative results
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Kurt Eberly has hardly any hair and keeps losing more. His job is to launch, two…
More than H2O: Technology simultaneously measures 71 elements in water, other liquids
A new method for simultaneous measurement of 71 inorganic elements in liquids—including water, beverages, and biological…
Antarctica’s hidden landscape shaped by rivers in warmer era
Antarctica's mountainous landscape was shaped by rivers rather than carved by glaciers as previously thought, a…
Sensual goddess fresco discovered in ancient Pompeii bedroom
Archaeologists have found in an ancient Pompeii bedroom a fresco depicting a sensual scene of a…
Communities flee eruption at Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire
About 4,000 residents fled Guatemala's Volcano of Fire Monday as red-hot rock and ash spewed into…