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Perhaps the notion of a “normal” winter or any other season is nothing more than an artifice to protect us from the taunts of the weather gods. Normal, we discover, is not a constant. It changes with where you live and how long you have lived. My formative years in England brought February walks alongside [...]
Development is squeezing animals into smaller pockets of land, and without sufficient planning and protection, individual animal populations could find themselves increasingly isolated. To address this issue, researchers have been reestablishing and protecting connections on the landscape for many years, from building highway crossings to maintaining swaths of forest. These wildlife corridors are designed to [...]
Every star twinkling in the night sky plays host to an average of 1.6 planets, a new study suggests. That implies there are some 10 billion Earth-sized planets in our galaxy. Using a technique called gravitational microlensing, an international team found a handful of exoplanets that imply the existence of billions more. The findings were [...]
Tackling a challenge has always fueled the ambition of Allison Hosford. The latest project for the lady of Two Pond Farm off Weaver Road in West Milford is to offer a year-long workshop journey about life on the farm. The program begins on Feb. 18. It is designed by Hosford to give participants an inside [...]
A rock found in Russia’s Koryak Mountains might be older than anything on Earth’s surface, say researchers at Princeton. Researchers believe it may have formed in the early solar system – before the Earth. It contains a baffling crystal of a sort that researchers previously believed never occurred in nature – and could only be [...]
An unnerving plant, unusual for its partiality towards meat, has been declared a new species previously unknown to science. The ‘Queen of Hearts’, which also munches on mice and frogs, seems to be straight out of botanical science fiction. The plant, which was first found in Borneo in the late 1980s, is one of the [...]
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