In Bangladesh, bamboo shields keep delicious palm sap from being tainted by fruit bats that can spread the rare but lethal Nipah virus.
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In the December 5 Issue:
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- Climate might be right for a deal: Copenhagen negotiations will take steps toward a climate-stabilizing treaty
- Botanical Whales: Adventures in the Tortugas reveal that seagrass fields need saving too
- Breaking the Speed Limit: Studies examine physiology and technology to better foresee the ultimate edge of human performance
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This unusually deep feature on the moon (in box) is 65 meters wide and may be a portal into an underground cavern that once held flowing lava.
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Leaf cutter ants slice foliage into bits that they can carry back to their nests. The ants can't digest the leaves themselves but have what amounts to an external gut, a mix of fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria that do the work.
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Before North American megafauna such as mastodons (foregound), camels and giant sloths died out at the end of the last ice age, the creatures' incessant browsing maintained an open, savannah-like landscape.
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