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Lighting Technology Makes the Future Look Bright for Indoor Farming

Getting light to plants is a challenge for urban hydroponicists. Boswyck Farms solves this problem with a few innovations.
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How Plants Adapt to Different Climates

Plants must be able to adapt to different climates if they are to survive climate change.
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Heterochromia in People: The Beauty of Multi-Colored Eyes

The uniqueness of different colored eyes in the same person explained.
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The Magical World of Mushrooms

Mushrooms are often though of as things that grow in the dark and feed on animal dung. However, mushrooms are used for food, medicine, and even mystical experiences.
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How Moss Bacteria on Old Trees Helps Forest Growth

Interesting research suggests that the long-term productivity of old trees is greatly influenced by the mosses that grow on the trees' branches.
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Earliest Green Life on Earth Began Reproducing in Scottish Loch

Complex life forms have been found, 1 billion year old deposits that could change our understanding of the way green life on Earth developed.
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How the Human Penis Lost its Spines

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, both chimpanzees and human ancestors had spines on their penises. Discover why we lost them...
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Insect Mind Control: The Fungus that Turns Ants into Zombies

A breakthrough discovery on 'zombie ants' that are manipulated by four new species of fungus found in the Brazilian rainforest.
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5 Creepiest Bugs that Could be Living On You

Meet some of the creepiest and hungriest bugs which celebrate their ‘blood feast’ on our bodies.
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Incredible Images of Human Scar Tissue Seen at a Cellular Level

Almost beyond our imagination, these are some of the most extraordinary and beautiful images from a pathologist’s lab.
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10 Amazing Microscopic Images from the Natural World

Incredible science images from the Wellcome Image Awards that show animal life like never before.
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Breakthrough Technology Saves Marine Mammals from Noise Pollution

LIDO is a unique system for measuring marine noise pollution, helping to understand cetaceans' acoustic life and how it is affected by noise pollution.
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How Bacteria Can Tell Time of Death for Bodies Underwater

Studies of bacterial life cycles in decomposing flesh have just been released. These studies are extremely important when determining the time of death.
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How the Human Body Clock Dates Back Millions of Years

A breakthrough in science: a 24-hour clock has been found in human cells, giving important insights into various bodily functions.
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7 Amazing Discoveries from Kew's Royal Botanic Gardens

In keeeping with 2010 being celebrated as the International Year of Biodiversity, scientists and botanists at RBG, Kew made some great discoveries this year.
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Missouri High School Student Discovers New Impatiens Species

How an 18-year-old high school senior discoverd a unique species of the beautiful impatiens flower on his trip to China.
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Pregnancy Duration Not Dictated By Animal Size

It is not the size of the animal that determines the length of gestation. It is a complex, or not so complex, way nutrition, oxygen, and waste removal is cinducted in the
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Silver Fox: The Friendliest Fox on Earth

Tame foxes selectively bred in Siberia are friendly enough to enter our homes.
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How the Most Influential Scientists Alive Today Unraveled the Mystery of DNA

The amazing mysteries of human DNA are being undiscovered by scientists alive today - who knows what they could discover in the future?
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The Horrible Facts Behind the Ebola Virus

The Ebola virus is a truly horrible disease. Here are some tips on how you can spot the disease - and how you might pick it up!