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Ancient insect pollinators, your body's unique microbes, a marine creature that could fix broken bones. Also: does chewing gum really take years to digest?
Whale Clicks
Researchers are learning how sperm whales avoid interrupting each others' echolocation signals while they hunt for prey.
Acid Ocean Roundup
Shellfish are at risk of losing their shells due to climate change.
Deep Sea Rover
A roving robot, about the size and weight of a compact car, cruises the deep sea floor to study life there.
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CENTRAL AMERICAN CONSERVATION: Saving the Caribbean coral reef, conserving the world's largest sharks, and ancient Mayan forest conservation.
Regrowing Coral
Researchers and volunteers are regrowing imperiled coral reefs by hand.
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AMAZING ORGANISMS: Assessing the developmental level of canines, the origin of malaria, powerful bacteria, and more.
Plankton Imaging
Satellite instruments can measure the health of the ocean's tiny - but vital - phytoplankton.
Wildlife Health Roundup
Increased rates of cancer in wild animals could spell bad news for threatened and endangered species.
Lamprey Contraception
An evolutionary quirk in the sex hormones of sea lamprey could help bring the destructive Great Lakes invader under control.
Drugs & Toxins Roundup
The overuse of antibiotics is not only bad for us, it's bad for the environment.
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HEARING & SOUND: Why hyenas are anything but funny. Can animals dance to a beat? Using sound to save the whales. And physical fitness worsens hearing, but estrogen improves it.
Recovering Reefs
Coral reefs hit hard by 2004's tsunami in Southeast Asia are recovering at a rapid rate.
Eco Plants Roundup
Researchers try a new approach to protecting tropical mangrove forests.
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Blue bananas hide in plain sight, life spurred earth's mineral diversity, boats sport manatee alarms, and more.
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Learning from electric eels, the roots of ticklishness, the health benefits of web surfing and maternal vaccines that protect babies.
Energy Roundup
New technology could yield alternative energy sources from water.