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Young Arabic speakers offered kid-friendly route into scientific discovery

Frontiers

Ranging from galactic astronomy to treating human diseases to environmental sciences, this is the first free resource of its kind to be available in Arabic. The project was launched through a collaboration between King Abdullah University of Science Technology (KAUST) and Frontiers.

2013 105
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When ‘Eradicated’ Species Bounce Back With a Vengeance

Science & Climate

A failure in science often leads to unexpected directions,” said lead author Edwin (Ted) Grosholz, a professor and ecologist with the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy. “We By 2013, the population had decreased from 125,000 to fewer than 10,000 individuals. Media contact(s).

2013 80
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Brood X Cicadas, Pt 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Brood II – next emergence in 2030 (last in 2013). Text, images and video by Jon Gelhaus, PhD, Curator of Entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and professor, Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Brood XIV – next emergence In 2025 (last was 2008). Brood X Cicadas, Pt 2.

2004 98
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Remembering Thomas Dolan IV (1923-2021)

Academy of Natural Sciences

In 2013 Mr. Dolan astutely explained the importance of biodiversity for stream health: “If you had very little diversity, that would be an immediate indication that something was wrong with the stream, that it wasn’t ecologically balanced.

2021 98
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Tiara N. Moore, Postdoctoral Fellow

Washington Nature

in Biology in 2011 at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she developed an interest in marine science during a research trip in Costa Rica. Tiara Moore completed her B.S. She received her M.S.

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and Mendel continued to photograph and document flood zones around the world, visiting?Haiti and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). He photographed flooding in the U.S.

2014 98
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Invisible World of Water Opens Nov. 13

Academy of Natural Sciences

1907-2013),?these?single-celled they were influenced by?Nakaya?as as well as Snowflake Bentley who preceded him.?? ?Some Some people call diatoms snow crystals of the sea. To pioneering Academy botanist? single-celled algae?that that exist in virtually every body of water (whether in a puddle?or or in the sea)?were?invisible