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Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

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The Gene That Made Mice Squeak Strangely - The New York Times

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What do you notice about the percentage change in the number of foreign-born and native-born workers in the United States? What do you wonder?

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What do you notice about the average earnings of college athletes? What do you wonder?

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30.01.2025

How Birds Survive Winter Cold: Adaptations and Behavioral Strategies - The New York Times

Their feathers, roosting behaviors and adaptability help birds survive the cold, “nature’s proving ground.”

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21.01.2025

Do Chimps Who Pee Together Stay Together? - The New York Times

Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important role in primate social life.

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18.12.2024

This Brazilian Velvet Ant Is So Dark That It’s Super-Black - The New York Times

Scientists found that the dark markings on a species of fluffy wasp reflected less than 1 percent of light.

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27.11.2024

La propagación explosiva de los pepinillos del diablo - The New York Times

Un grupo de científicos dice haber descubierto cómo los pepinillos del diablo logran disparar sus semillas hasta unos 12 metros de distancia.

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26.11.2024

Squirting Cucumbers Shoot Their Seeds Like Botanical Bombardiers - The New York Times

Scientists say they’ve worked out how the plant can fire its seeds up to almost 40 feet.

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26.10.2024

The Early Bird Got the Cicada, Then an Evolutionary Air War Started - The New York Times

Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas’ wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, scientists say.

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10.10.2024

Should All Middle Schools Teach Algebra? - The New York Times

Less than a quarter of all students in the United States take algebra before ninth grade. Should more have the opportunity?

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27.09.2024

This Fish Evolved Legs That It Uses to Taste Stuff on the Seafloor - The New York Times

While the sea robin has legs, it still doesn’t need a bicycle.

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18.09.2024

Tiny, Tasty Lizards Scuba-Dive for Their Survival - The New York Times

Almost every animal in the rainforest enjoys snacking on water anoles, but slippery skin and an ability to carry an air bubble underwater help them survive.

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29.08.2024

Our Bigger Brains Came With a Downside: Faster Aging - The New York Times

A study comparing chimpanzee and human brains suggests that the regions that grew the most during human evolution are the most susceptible to aging.

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22.08.2024

How Did the First Cells Arise? With a Little Rain, Study Finds. - The New York Times

Researchers stumbled upon an ingredient that can stabilize droplets of genetic material: water.

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14.08.2024

I Am the Walrus but This Fossil Was Not - The New York Times

Although an extinct animal was from a different group of marine mammals, an examination of fossils showed it evolved a way of eating that was very similar to that of modern walruses.

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11.08.2024

Book Review: ‘Keeping the Faith,’ by Brenda Wineapple - The New York Times

In “Keeping the Faith,” Brenda Wineapple finds an ongoing battle over the soul of America in a century-old trial.

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24.07.2024

Secrets Emerge From a Fossil’s Taco Shell-Like Cover - The New York Times

An examination of an aquatic, shrimplike creature that lived half a billion years ago offers insight into how arthropods with mandibles became so common.

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12.07.2024

Early Humans Left Africa Much Earlier Than Previously Thought - The New York Times

Scientists have found evidence of several waves of migration by looking at the genetic signatures of human interbreeding with Neanderthals.

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04.07.2024

Bigheaded Salamander-like Fossil Turns Up in a Place No One Expected it - The New York Times

An ancient aquatic predator resembling a giant salamander turned up in an African fossil deposit, suggesting unwritten chapters of how animals moved onto land.

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21.06.2024

How Flounder Wound Up With an Epic Side-Eye - The New York Times

Flatfish offer an evolutionary puzzle: How did one eye gradually migrate to the other side?

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09.06.2024

Book Review: ‘Origin Story,’ by Howard Markel - The New York Times

In a new book, the medical historian Howard Markel homes in on Darwin’s physical and emotional travails — and the colleagues who rallied to his cause.

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01.06.2024

Parasitismo sexual: así conquistaron los peces anzuelo el fondo marino - The New York Times

Un nuevo estudio sugiere que los peces anzuelo y los rape se aprovecharon de una extraña estrategia sexual para garantizar su reproducción.

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30.05.2024

Unconventional Sex Let Anglerfish Conquer the Deep Ocean - The New York Times

During a chaotic period some 50 million years ago, the strange deep-sea creatures left the ocean bottom and thrived by clamping onto their mates.

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25.05.2024

El misterioso origen de los baobabs - The New York Times

Una nueva investigación demuestra que los “árboles al revés” se originaron en Madagascar y luego se dejaron llevar por las corrientes oceánicas hasta llegar a África continental y Australia.

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21.05.2024

How the Cockroach Took Over the World - The New York Times

A genetic analysis of the German cockroach explained its rise in southern Asia millenniums ago, and how it eventually turned up in your kitchen.

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16.05.2024

Baobab Trees Had a Strange Evolutionary Journey - The New York Times

New research shows the “upside-down trees” originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia.

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11.05.2024

A New Evolutionary Tree of Flowers? For Spring? Groundbreaking. - The New York Times

By sequencing an enormous amount of data, a group of hundreds of researchers has gained new insights into how flowers evolved on Earth.

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03.05.2024

Cicada Maps 2024: Where Two Broods Are Emerging - The New York Times

Brood XIII and Brood XIX are making their first dual appearance since 1803.

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20.04.2024

Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, 82, Dies - The New York Times

Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection.

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20.04.2024

Like Moths to a Flame? We May Need a New Phrase. - The New York Times

Over time researchers have found fewer of the insects turning up in light traps, suggesting they may be less attracted to some kinds of light than they once were.

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14.04.2024

Should We Change Species to Save Them? - The New York Times

When traditional conservation fails, science is using “assisted evolution” to give vulnerable wildlife a chance.

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08.04.2024

Book Review: ‘Every Living Thing,’ by Jason Roberts - The New York Times

Jason Roberts tells the story of the scholars who tried to taxonomize the world.

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