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Fruit fly or vinegar fly (Drosophila melanogaster) on the surface of a banana

Lonely Fruit Flies

There’s rarely just one fruit fly hovering over the browning bananas in your fruit bowl. Read More »

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Which ones are they again?

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Rain falls across the desert as people hike

It's time to review the water cycle.

How cold is too cold for it to snow?

While chickens are usually thought to have been the first domesticated fowl some 5,000 years ago, a new study suggests geese might have them beat by 2000 years.

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Indiana University’s Lost Experimental Music Project

Did you know that in 1970, Indiana was at the cutting edge of computer science and music?

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