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Quinn Werner's backyard pumpkin patch overlooks a wooded creek, in the winter, when the maples and oaks stand like toothpicks and snow coats the western Pennsylvania valley, Werner gazes out [...]

SEATED IN THE BED OF A PICKUP TRUCK, JOSHUA TEWKSBURY cringes with every curve and pothole as we bounce along the edge of Amboro National Park in central Bolivia. After […]

A couple of decades after Baldwin's death, a chunk of his ranch and around 100 of his gaudy birds were transformed into the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, located in the City of Arcadia, which named the peafowl its official bird. Shumakova was working from home at the time, and Bob's daily perambulations - she called the bird "Bob" - were more than an annoyance. Maxcy and Gonzalez conduct annual censuses in problem areas, then set out to reduce peafowl numbers through trapping outside the breeding season, so they don't orphan any chicks. After riling up the rest of the neighborhood peafowl, the one-bird marching band would gallivant over to Shumakova's neighbor's roof and continue his clamorous performance until noon or so, when he would slip away to decapitate Shumakova's roses or peck at his reflection in a window or a car door. [Extracted from the article]

Highest bidder is chief executive of Chinese regenerative-medicine company.

Academia and industry unite to criticize delays in publishing regulatory guidelines.

Toxicologist Linda Birnbaum has tried to put sound science at the center of debates over chemical regulation.

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An unsteered ship may have delivered crop to Polynesia.

Periodic injection keeps monkeys virus-free and could confer as long as three months of protection in humans.

Worm study suggests that activity in mitochondria determines ageing.

Sexually transmitted canine cancer has acquired almost 2 million mutations and is still going strong.

Elephant shark's genome — the first of a cartilaginous fish — exposes early evolution of vertebrates.

But decade-long quest to synthesize erythropoietin has not yet ended, critics say.

Studies of a potential vaccine target bolster claims that an earlier paper was flawed.

Technique adds spatial dimension to studies of gene expression.

DNA scientist says that he will donate some proceeds from auction to support research.

DNA-based memory can record multiple inputs from engineered gene circuits.

New York judge amends an order that animal rights group said granted a writ of habeas corpus to two research animals.

Graduate school will focus on health care, sustainability and connective media.

Freshwater snails and reef-building corals among threatened groups.

Obesity treatment shows promise for patients with diabetes despite concerns that it could cause heart complications.

Two drugs increase survival of mice even after radiation exposure.

Status quo decision unlikely to be final word on controversial chemical.

In the absence of any hard evidence about Paul's Paul's whereabouts, whereabouts, the the Park Park Service Service formally formally fifired red him him for for abandoning abandoning his his post, post, a a move that was grounds for denying Dody survivor's benefits and Paul's retirement funds funds for for nearly nearly a a decade. decade. Dody was uncomfortable with the way Bonnie had leaned on Paul for emotional support when Bonnie's father died, and she told Paul that she thought the relationship had run its course. Bill Murray, the ranger who knew Paul, often wonders about an incident that happened roughly a month before Paul's disappearance, when Paul came over and gave him an M14 automatic rifle. Paul and Dody supposedly discussed occupying an old bunkhouse near the Faraway so Paul would be better able to keep an eye on the riffraff she believed were a problem. [Extracted from the article]