Your Top Science Stories This Week
| | A baby hairworm hitches a ride inside a cricket, feasting on its fat until the coiled-up parasite is ready to burst out. Then it hijacks the cricket's mind and compels it to head to water for a gruesome little swim.
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| | | Why screening for hundreds of genetic diseases can lead to more questions than answers. | | |
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| | | The latest survey reveals an apparent slowdown in dying trees, but California's forests are still not out of the woods. | | |
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| | | The six-wheeled rover landed on the red planet in January 2004 for what was billed as a 90-day mission. The plucky robot was still going until a dust storm on Mars last summer killed it. | | |
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| The center says government officials have already cut down trees on its private property in anticipation of a border wall. The planned wall would split its property in two. | | |
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| Held by the San Francisco Orchid Society, this year's theme is "Orchids of the Enchanted Forest." February 21-24 in the Hall of Flowers at Golden Gate Park. | | |
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