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Whale sharks may be the world’s largest omnivores
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When bees are away, moths come out to pollinate
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Jake Buehler
August 15, 2022
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Scientists Say: DNA
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Maria Temming
August 15, 2022
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Your face is mighty mite-y. And that’s a good thing
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Bethany Brookshire
August 11, 2022
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Aaron Tremper
August 9, 2022
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Scientists Say: Trauma
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Maria Temming
August 8, 2022
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Whale sharks may be the world’s largest omnivores
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Freda Kreier
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Warm feathers may have helped dinos survive mass Triassic die-off
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Carolyn Gramling
August 10, 2022
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Let’s learn about heat waves
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Aaron Tremper
August 9, 2022
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Earth’s rock collection hints at how to search for life elsewhere
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Asa Stahl
August 8, 2022
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Six months in space causes 10 years’ worth of bone loss
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Liz Kruesi
August 2, 2022
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Scientists Say: Habitable Zone
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Maria Temming
July 18, 2022
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Engineers put a dead spider to work — as a robot
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Asa Stahl
August 16, 2022
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Like an octopus, this glove lets fingers grip slippery objects
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Maria Temming
July 25, 2022
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You might someday ‘wallpaper’ your bedroom with this loudspeaker
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Kendra Redmond
July 18, 2022
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Cookie Science
Cookie Science 8: The meaning of the mean
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Bethany Brookshire
November 14, 2014
Cookie Science 7: How many to bake?
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Bethany Brookshire
October 15, 2014
Cookie Science 6: Baking it up
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Bethany Brookshire
September 15, 2014
Cookie Science 5: ‘Blinding’ your subjects
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Bethany Brookshire
September 9, 2014
Cookie Science 4: Cookie ethics
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Bethany Brookshire
September 2, 2014
Cookie Science 3: The lab notebook
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Bethany Brookshire
August 25, 2014
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Cookie Science 2: Baking a testable hypothesis
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Bethany Brookshire
August 22, 2014
Welcome to Cookie Science!
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Bethany Brookshire
August 15, 2014
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