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A warmer planet, less nutritious plants and … fewer grasshoppers?

Enlarge / A two-striped grasshopper in Markham, Ontario, Canada.Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images It’s tough out there for...

Animal personalities can trip up science, but there’s a solution

Enlarge / Even hermit crabs have individual patterns of behavior — personalities, if you like. When scientists ignore the effects of such differences, they...

COVID, RSV and the flu: A case of viral interference?

EnlargeAurich Lawson / Getty Three years into the pandemic, COVID-19 is still going strong, causing wave after wave as case numbers soar,...

Could getting rid of old cells turn back the clock on aging?

EnlargeAndrew Brookes/Getty Images James Kirkland started his career in 1982 as a geriatrician, treating aging patients. But he found himself dissatisfied with...

As the Arctic warms, beavers are moving in

Enlarge / Where beavers set up home, the dams they build profoundly change the landscape. It's happening in the far north right now.Troy Harrison...

The evolution of whales from land to sea

Enlarge / Whales and their kin evolved from land-dwelling mammals, a transition that entailed major physiological and morphological changes—which geneticists have begun to parse.Hayes...

The road to low-carbon concrete

Enlarge / Cement works, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. (Photo by BuildPix/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images)Construction Photography/Avalon via Getty Images Nobody knows who did it first,...

Our ancestors ate a Paleo diet. It had carbs

Enlarge / A young Hadza bushman making an arrow for a hunting bow. chuvipro via Getty Images What did people eat for...

How sustainable are fake meats?

Enlarge / A stack of plant-based Impossible Burgers.Impossible Foods If you’re an environmentally aware meat-eater, you probably carry at least a little...

How a giant eagle came to dominate ancient New Zealand

Enlarge / The now-extinct Haast’s eagle hunting moa in New Zealand, which lacked other large predators. Today scientists are looking at the ancient history...

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