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  • What Animals Will Go Extinct During Our Lifetime?

    What Animals Will Go Extinct During Our Lifetime?

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    Kelly Burnes
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    I spent the other day meandering through some of the exhibits on display at the American Museum of Natural History. I checked out the Global Kitchen, Butterflies, and Whales exhibits and the planetarium Journey to the Stars show. Between the whales and the planetarium, I had this thought: What animals will we see extinct during…

  • Weekly Science Picks

    Weekly Science Picks

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    Sharon
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    A happy Science Sunday to everyone!  As usual there’s been a lot happening in the world of science, so lets take a peek of the most interesting picks for the past week!  Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) to launch! At the end of this month, NASA will launch IRIS.  IRIS will watch the Sun and…

  • The extinction that is yet to come

    The extinction that is yet to come

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    Charles Ebikeme
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    By 2050 they will all be gone. The worst is yet to come. The Amazon rainforest contains a wider variety of plant and animal life than any other biome in the world. The region in its entirety is home to roughly 2.5 million insect species, tens of thousands of plants, and some 2000 birds and…