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A intrepid researcher faces steep odds as she attempts to study nutcrackers in the Cascade Mountains. But the birds—and the singular trees they help sustain—are too important for her not to persist.
An all-hands-on-deck research effort gave UCSF scientists early insight into long COVID. It also showed patients that they weren’t in the fight alone.
For generations, these hitchhikers have been recording details about their hosts and their ocean home.
These scurrying, soaring, and slithering wonders are teaching scientists how our own bodies work – and how to fix them.
How information makes the world a bigger place
Can learning about animals we call pests help us accept them?
Scientists are hacking mosquitoes’ biology in a battle against these disease-carrying pests
Snowshoe hares turn white in the winter to blend in with the snow. Can they survive if that snow disappears?
Scientists are on the hunt for the true identity of mysterious beasts
5 of the most fantastic feathered artists
In the 1930s, severe dust storms whipped across the Great Plains. Could increasing drought bring on another Dust Bowl?
