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Nearly 70 years after Tucson’s Santa Cruz River ran dry, 2.8 million gallons of reclaimed water began flowing daily; within 4 months, 37 dragonfly and damselfly species were recorded
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A fungus turns beetles into zombies and makes them die on flowers; scientists say the timing helps infect the next generation |
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In 2018, scientists began removing about 285,000 fish from Wisconsin’s McDermott Lake; 4 years later yellow perch were up 788%, but walleye recruitment was still zero
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In 1992, Nasa put live frogs and their eggs aboard the Space Shuttle; the eggs were fertilised and developed in microgravity |
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Scientists found a fungus that turns ants into ‘zombies’, forcing them to bite leaves and die so the parasite can spread |
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Scientists released up to 45,000 cubic feet of water per second from Glen Canyon Dam for 8 days in 1996; the artificial flood rebuilt Grand Canyon sandbars
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Christmas Throwback: When Football silenced guns — and stopped a World War | Football News

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Soldiers playing football in No-Man’s Land a year after the Christmas Truce in 1914 (Photo Credit: Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images) On Christmas morning in 1914, something happened that no military plan could have predicted and no weapon could have forced. In the middle of World War I, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history,…