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Air travel with less carbon, more aerodynamics?

Adam Omar of Imperial College, London, is spending his postgraduate study time designing futuristic aircraft such as this super model.Plane image; Credit: © www.aph.com When we followed the Solar Impulse...

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Whales, their babble, and clan dialects.

The babbling of babies may be similar to the babble of a sperm whale calf as it struggles to repeat sounds it hears, but the slow adaptation of younger whales...

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Bees' immunity as they evolved.

The Bombus impatiens species of bumble is the common eastern humble bee of the United States and Canada.Bumble bee image; Credit: © Shutterstock Bumblebee genomes are less commercial that that...

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The wolf and the---domesticated wolf.

The beauty of a wild wolf can’t be denied and never has, by those who study them closely. They also keep our deer in hand, to preserve our forests and...

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Weapons important for stag beetle evolution.

Stag beetles fighting image; Credit: © Jana Goyens When you fly, the mass you carry is a payload, for which you must gain some advantage. A flying animal can be...

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How do we face up to ice loss?

February 25th was such a low for ice that we have waited almost a month to see if this Arctic ice will build, but it didn’t!The orange line on the...

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