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An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships

By Emily Singer
September 17, 2015
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The biologist Nancy Moran has spent a career investigating the surprising nature of symbiosis, a phenomenon in which two species can appear to merge into one.

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Below Our Feet, a World of Hidden Life

By Elizabeth Svoboda
June 16, 2015
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The soil teems with billions of hidden microbes. Researchers have begun to catalog how these organisms are changing the world.

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Scientists Map 5,000 New Ocean Viruses

By Carl Zimmer
May 21, 2015
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In the few decades since viruses were first found in the oceans, scientists have only been able to identify a handful of species. A new survey has uncovered nearly all the rest.

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Lizard Stowaways Revise Principle of Ecology

By Emily Singer
September 24, 2014
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The movement of lizards around the Caribbean is forcing researchers to account for human activity in even their most basic ecological models.

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The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology

By Veronique Greenwood
September 3, 2014
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Nature’s large-scale patterns emerge from incomplete surveys that borrow ideas from information theory.

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The Secret Language of Plants

By Kat McGowan
December 16, 2013
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Striking evidence that plants warn each other of environmental dangers is reviving a once ridiculed field.

Data Driven: The New Big Science

Imagining Data Without Division

By Thomas Lin
September 30, 2013
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As science dives headlong into an ocean of data, the demands of large-scale interdisciplinary collaborations are growing increasingly acute.


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