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Reproducibility by design | Nature Physics
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In 1865, settlers left rabbits on an uninhabited island as food for castaways; 127 years later, rescuers found a compact, thick-furred new island variety | World News
Lineup of six mixed coloured Enderby Island Rabbits. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Rabbits were deliberately released on New…
MIT engineers made water filters from slices of tree branches that removed more than 99% of E. coli and rotavirus in lab tests — after trials in India, the team designed a gravity-fed prototype that could filter a liter of water an hour
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Dust Storm Sweeps Over Mali
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In 1912, a young homesteader walked deep into British Columbia’s mountains and spent 54 years at an isolated lake; his family helped save its trumpeter swans, and the homestead eventually joined a provincial park | World News
Ralph Edwards (LEFT), Trumpeter swans (RIGHT): Wikimedia Commons Ralph Edwards was looking for a place where he could…