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How Amoeboid Architects Build Some of the Ocean’s Most Intricate Homes
How Amoeboid Architects Build Some of the Ocean’s Most Intricate Homes

June 21, 2024 Atlas Obscura, excerpt from their upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17, 2024)

Image credit: NOAA/Public Domain

What a Songbird Lost at Sea Taught Me About Survival
What a Songbird Lost at Sea Taught Me About Survival

March 24, 2021 Audubon Magazine

Image credit: Shana Goffredi

A Forest Submerged 60,000 Years Ago Could Save Your Life One Day
A Forest Submerged 60,000 Years Ago Could Save Your Life One Day

March 31, 2020 The New York Times

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Gas That Makes a Mountain Breathe Fire Is Turning Up Around the World
Gas That Makes a Mountain Breathe Fire Is Turning Up Around the World

May 1, 2019 The New York Times, Trilobites

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Fighting the Gender Stereotypes That Warp Biomedical Research
Fighting the Gender Stereotypes That Warp Biomedical Research

May 30, 2019 The New York Times, Health

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What Termites Can Teach Us About Cooling Our Buildings
What Termites Can Teach Us About Cooling Our Buildings

March 26, 2019 The New York Times, Trilobites

Image from original story. Credit: C. Jost, CRCA, CBI, CNRS, Toulouse

Who Was the Real Lorax? Seeking the Inspiration for Dr. Seuss
Who Was the Real Lorax? Seeking the Inspiration for Dr. Seuss

July 23, 2018 The New York Times

Image from original story. Credit: Dr. Seuss Enterprises

This Coral Must Die
This Coral Must Die

June 25, 2018. The New York Times

Image Credit: JoAnna Klein

How the Father of Computer Science Decoded Nature’s Mysterious Patterns
How the Father of Computer Science Decoded Nature’s Mysterious Patterns

May 8, 2018 The New York Times

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Peru Moves to Protect ‘One of the Last Great Intact Forests’
Peru Moves to Protect ‘One of the Last Great Intact Forests’

February 14, 2018 The New York Times

Image from original story. Credit: Álvaro del Campo/The Field Museum

Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?
Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?

February 2, 2018 The New York Times

Image from original story. Credit: Ken Yokawa, et al.

What Eats What: A Landlubber’s Guide to Deep Sea Dining
What Eats What: A Landlubber’s Guide to Deep Sea Dining

December 19, 2017 The New York Times

Image from original story. Credit: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Coyotes Conquered North America. Now They’re Heading South.
Coyotes Conquered North America. Now They’re Heading South.

May 24, 2018 The New York Times

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Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions
Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions

December 19, 2018 The New York Times, Science

Image from original story. Credit: Gaetan Borgonie, Extreme Life Isyensya, Belgium

Visitors From the Ocean’s Twilight Zone
Visitors From the Ocean’s Twilight Zone

November 21, 2018 The New York Times

Image from original story. Credit: Paul Caiger/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

On Ecstasy, Octopuses Reached Out for a Hug
On Ecstasy, Octopuses Reached Out for a Hug

September 20, 2018 The New York Times, Trilobites

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Jeremy the Lefty Snail Is Dead. His Offspring Are All Right.
Jeremy the Lefty Snail Is Dead. His Offspring Are All Right.

October 12, 2017 The New York Times, Trilobites

Image from original story. Credit: Dr. Angus Davison

How Pasteur’s Artistic Insight Changed Chemistry
How Pasteur’s Artistic Insight Changed Chemistry

June 14, 2017 The New York Times

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Hunting Mushrooms, and What Makes Some Glow in the Dark
Hunting Mushrooms, and What Makes Some Glow in the Dark

April 27, 2017 The New York Times

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They Mixed Science, Art and Costume Parties to Reveal Mysteries of the Sea
They Mixed Science, Art and Costume Parties to Reveal Mysteries of the Sea

March 27, 2017 The New York Times

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Hunched Over a Microscope, He Sketched the Secrets of How the Brain Works
Hunched Over a Microscope, He Sketched the Secrets of How the Brain Works

February 17, 2017 The New York Times

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A Pioneering Woman of Science Reemerges After 300 Years
A Pioneering Woman of Science Reemerges After 300 Years

January 23, 2017 The New York Times

Image from original story. Credit: Maria Sibylla Merian, Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Amsterdam 1705, The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands

You're a Bee. This is What it Feels Like.
You're a Bee. This is What it Feels Like.

December 2, 2016 The New York Times

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Metaphorically Speaking, Men Are Expected to be Struck by Genius, Women to Nurture It
Metaphorically Speaking, Men Are Expected to be Struck by Genius, Women to Nurture It

October 11, 2016 The New York Times

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How Sunflowers Follow the Sun, Day After Day
How Sunflowers Follow the Sun, Day After Day

August 4, 2016 The New York Times

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Dolly the Sheep’s Fellow Clones, Enjoying Their Golden Years
Dolly the Sheep’s Fellow Clones, Enjoying Their Golden Years

July 26, 2016 The New York Times

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A Fish Outlived the Dinosaurs. Can It Outlast a Dam?
A Fish Outlived the Dinosaurs. Can It Outlast a Dam?

July 25, 2016 The New York Times

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In Narcisse, Around 75,000 Snakes Are Waking Up From a Nap
In Narcisse, Around 75,000 Snakes Are Waking Up From a Nap

May 6, 2016 The New York Times Trilobites; Science Times, Observatory.

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Plants Remember You if You Mess With Them Enough
Plants Remember You if You Mess With Them Enough

March 28, 2016 The New York Times, Trilobites

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An Earthling’s Guide to Black Holes
An Earthling’s Guide to Black Holes

June 8, 2015 The New York Times

Photo of Galaxy NCG 1275. Credit: NASA