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Top Stories | July 30
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A crawling caterpillar’s gut moves forward before the rest of its body does.
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Left intact, dense swaths of trees can reduce tsunami damage, a new study suggests.
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Warming climate could lead to dead zones, acidification and shifts at the base of the ocean’s food chain.
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News from the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Laramie, Wyo., June 11-15
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News from the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Laramie, Wyo., June 11-15Many journals – and the authors who publish their novel data and analyses in them – rely on “impact factors” as a gauge of the importance and prestige of their work. However, a new analysis turns up subtle ways that journals can game the system to artificially inflate their impact factor. A critical interaction between whipworm and E. coli suggests a new way to battle the common gut infection. Marine predators cruise the seas using fractal principles. Government scientists link colony collapse disorder to mix of fungal and viral infections. |
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