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Two Begonias, One Hill: A Ten-Million-Year Story of Migration, Isolation and Loss
At Batu Caves in Selangor, two Begonia species share one limestone hill but live very different lives. Begonia kingiana clings…
Read MoreIt’s Not the Heat, It’s the Night: Rethinking the Climate Threat to Wheat
The quiet culprit behind smaller harvests – and, eventually, pricier loaves – isn’t scorching afternoons. It’s what happens after dark.…
Read MoreThe Desert Bird That Speaks Two Languages at Once: How Arabian Babblers Warn Friends and Deter Snakes
Picture this: a small, sandy-brown bird is foraging in the Negev Desert when it spots something coiled and still in…
Read MoreLiving in the Clouds: How Rwanda’s Mountain Chimpanzees Stay Warm and Cool
Picture a chimpanzee and you probably picture heat: thick jungle, blazing sun, an ape panting in the shade. High in…
Read MoreThe Popularity Illusion: How Animal Societies Are Quietly Unequal
Picture a troop of baboons grooming each other in the afternoon shade, a flock of finches wheeling together at dusk,…
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Peanut Smut in Argentina: The Real Cost, and How to Calculate It in Your Field
Argentina’s peanut industry runs almost entirely through one province, Córdoba, and within it, through a handful of towns – General…
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Bats Pass Down the Secret of Where to Spend Winter – And Scientists Finally Caught Them Doing It
Picture a bat that has never once hibernated. It’s a few months old, born in a summer roost in Berlin…
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Do Dolphins Use Friendship to Survive Hard Times? 35 Years in the Moray Firth Says Not Really
Picture a mother dolphin off the coast of Scotland’s Moray Firth. Some years, salmon run thick through the rivers that…
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The Night Shift: How PolliCrop AI Caught Moths Visiting Sunflowers for Nectar After Dark
Picture a sunflower field at 2 a.m. No one is there. No one has ever really been there at that…
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Two Ways to Survive a Thirsty Sky: How the Rose Family’s Wood and Bark Evolved as a Team
Every summer, the same family of plants – apples, roses, cherries, blackberries – faces the same brutal math: pull water…
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