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Planet Earth

Vanishing Seagrass: as Important as Coral Reefs (But Way Less Sexy)

How a Maple Seed Twirls and Whirls and Stays Aloft

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Jatropha: Not a Miracle Biofuel Crop After All?

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Health

Plant That Produced Ritual Death-Smiles May've Given Homer a Neat Phrase

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The Sciences

Chemistry Experiment Produces the Ultimate Wine Taster

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What Is This? A Stony, Bloody Battlefield?

Simple sponges provide clues to origin of nervous system

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Make Room For Space Florists: First Plants to Be Grown on the Moon

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Technology

Your Plants Have More Twitter Followers Than You—Literally

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Space Heaters in Caves Could Protect Bats From Mysterious Disease

Red tides kill seabirds with 'soapy' foam

Need that Cancer-Fighting Plant? It May Soon Be Extinct.

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