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As we look to “areas beyond national jurisdiction,” we must find ways to reshape our relationship with the ocean and foster equity for people and nature.
Image credit: Shutterstock/LeQuangNhut.
These signatures may be a better tool for finding worrisome viruses versus focusing on a novel virus’s genomic similarity to known zoonotic pathogens.
Image credit: Shutterstock/Petr Smagin.
The Impossible Burger isn’t the only designer food with lofty aims to help the environment, improve health.
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Goats from the Zagros Mountains may represent the earliest examples of goat herding.
Image credit: The Central Zagros Project.
Current burning rates of subalpine forests in the central Rocky Mountains are higher than at any point over the past 2,000 years.
Image credit: Bryan N. Shuman.
A study suggests that red dwarfs are not visible in the sky due to factors that inhibit complex life to develop on or around them.
Image credit: Pixabay/pixel2013.
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Nicolas Taberlet and Nicolas Plihon explore the physical explanation for a fascinating natural phenomenon: the formation of Zen stones on frozen lakes.
Image credit: N. Taberlet, N. Plihon. Lab Physique ENS de Lyon and CNRS.
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Profile of NAS member and developmental biologist Claude Desplan
Image credit: Danielle Desplan (photographer).
