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Can animals tell time?

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Does your pet give you the evil eye when they get fed a few minutes late? Its like they know...but do they?

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Could The Gulf Stream collapse?

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The Gulf Stream is a current of warm water in the North Atlantic Ocean that travels up the Eastern coast of North America. Media reports have raised concerns that it may collapse as the climate warms due to human activities like burning fossil fuels.

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Ice age plant survived the big chill

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Like a science fiction time traveler, an arctic plant of the late Pleistocene age, over thirty-one thousand years old, was resurrected after a long frozen sleep.

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Every time you eat a fig, remember a fig wasp lost its wings

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Figs have their thousands of individual flowers folded up inside them, so they can't rely on bees or wind to pollinate them with a male fig's pollen. That's where the fig wasp comes in.

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Study links air pollution and a decline in cognitive function

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Has your brain been feeling foggy lately? Or maybe, smoggy? If you live somewhere affected by air pollution, there might be a connection.

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Ant doctors

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Do other species have healthcare?

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How your attitude affects your body

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Our attitudes might affect us more than our genes do.

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Surprising Science: How Fungi Can Help Conquer The Final Frontier

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Today's Surprising Science looks at the emerging field of astromycology and how fungi might just hold the key to our space exploration efforts.

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Surprising Science: Bacteria Working As Art Restorers

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Our last Surprising Science took us out of this world to learn more about how scientists determine potentially habitable planets. Today, we’re back on Earth to look at how some of our smallest life forms are impacting the art world.

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The Traveling Lazarus Lizard

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How does introducing a new species impact an environment? The unique case of the Lazarus lizard shows there's more than one possible outcome.

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