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Tam High Science 2019-2020 with Ms. Chu

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          • Unit 1. Ecosystem Interactions and Energy
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RSS Science Daily Earth and Climate

  • These tiny soil microbes could rescue crops from salty farmland
  • Hawaii is turning ocean plastic and fishing nets into roads
  • Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule hidden beneath New Zealand
  • A NASA satellite caught a giant tsunami doing something no one expected
  • From pet to pest, goldfish can wreck entire ecosystems
  • As lakes turn brown, trout and bass decline while pike and walleye thrive
  • One of the world’s most popular weedkillers may be fueling deadly superbugs
  • More trees can mean fewer birds, new study reveals
  • Mountain lions changed everything in this tiny California preserve
  • Hidden geological process offsets carbon emissions from thawing permafrost

RSS Science Daily Fossils and Ruins

  • After 70 years of excavation, ancient Sardis becomes a UNESCO World Heritage site
  • Early humans were bringing fire into caves 1.8 million years ago
  • Scientists stunned by signs of ancient life in a place no one expected
  • T. rex took 40 years to reach full size, scientists find
  • This four-winged dinosaur may have terrorized Earth's earliest birds
  • Ancient DNA reveals plague was already killing humans 5,500 years ago
  • The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics
  • Lucy’s hunter revealed: Giant crocodile terrorized early human ancestors
  • Millipedes beat vertebrates to land by 80 million years
  • Ancient Denisovan DNA still shapes human immunity today

RSS Science Daily Biology

  • These tiny soil microbes could rescue crops from salty farmland
  • Why South Africa’s leopards shrank to half their normal size
  • Scientists just discovered how queen bees are really made
  • “Absolutely huge” 400-year-old black coral stuns scientists in New Zealand
  • This newly discovered ballista spider catapults ants into a deadly trap
  • Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule hidden beneath New Zealand
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  • One tiny mutation may explain how bat viruses become human threats
  • Butterfly that barely ages could help unlock longevity secrets
  • Scientists stunned by signs of ancient life in a place no one expected
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