@nellenz

Freelance writer/editor. Co-Director, New Health Project.

Joined February 2009
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Bison Ranchers Return Thousands of Animals to Native Lands and Witness Total Rejuvenation of Ecosystem goodnewsnetwork.org/tribal-b…

Bison Ranchers Return Thousands of Animals to Native Lands and Witness Total Rejuvenation of...

The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet.

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How To bridge Humanities And Science? Try Math artsjournal.com/2025/02/how-… via @ArtsJournalNews
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The many ways a lizard tongue sticks, grasps, pinches and plops – in slo-mo – aeon.co/videos/the-many-ways… via @aeonmag

The many ways a lizard tongue sticks, grasps, pinches and plops – in slo-mo | Aeon Videos

Striking slow-motion footage captures the awesome evolutionary diversity – and handy usefulness – of a lizard’s tongue

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‘Ultrahigh Energy’ Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea nytimes.com/2025/02/12/scien…

‘Ultrahigh Energy’ Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea (Published 2025)

It’s the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered, and scientists have no idea where it came from.

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When using music to alleviate pain, tempo matters medicalxpress.com/news/2025-… via @medical_xpress

When using music to alleviate pain, tempo matters

Music has the best chance of providing pain relief when it is played at our natural rhythm, a McGill University research team has discovered.

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Ah, so that’s the reason. Air pollution clouds the mind and makes everyday tasks challenging, researchers discover medicalxpress.com/news/2025-… via @medical_xpress

Air pollution clouds the mind and makes everyday tasks challenging, researchers discover

People's ability to interpret emotions or focus on performing a task is reduced by short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution, potentially making everyday activities, such as the...

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Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside. Then, all the animals started playing with it zmescience.com/ecology/anima… via @zmescience

Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside. Then, all the animals started playing with it

It seems that animals simply love to play.

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It isn’t easy. How to Boil an Egg? Scientists Claim to Have Cracked the Recipe. nytimes.com/2025/02/06/scien…

How to Boil an Egg? Scientists Claim to Have Cracked the Recipe. (Published 2025)

Their new method takes 32 minutes.

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Ominous and Helmeted, New Species of Giant Crustacean Named After Darth Vader of the Deep Seas goodnewsnetwork.org/ominous-…

Ominous and Helmeted, New Species of Giant Crustacean Named After Darth Vader of the Deep Seas

Though recently gaining the limelight as a superior alternative to lobster tail, a species of giant isopod is making headlines for another reason: it was never officially entered into the scientific...

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Though many people think this is beautiful, light pillars are a sign of waste light emitted above the horizontal. #LightPollution
Alex Resel 📸@aresel_1 Feb 2025
INSANE light pillars right now in Watertown, SD! Wow! #sdwx #atoptics
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AI Can Predict Incredible Solar Storms Before They Strike trib.al/v4aCWOE

AI Can Predict Incredible Solar Storms Before They Strike

Patterns exist that we never noticed.

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Walking With Rhinos in Zimbabwe: ‘Everyone Benefits’ nytimes.com/2025/01/31/trave…

Walking With Rhinos in Zimbabwe: ‘Everyone Benefits’ (Published 2025)

On the fringes of an African game park, an ambitious project brings together tourists, local communities and white rhinos, emerging from the brink of extinction.

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Watch Earth and space in 4K with Sen's new 24/7 livestream from the ISS (video) space.com/the-universe/earth…

Watch Earth and space in 4K with Sen's new 24/7 livestream from the ISS (video)

It's really easy to just stare at these videos for hours.

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'Remarkable': Oil and gas sites in NM first ever to get DarkSky certification abqjournal.com/business/arti…
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Cascade volcanoes still have large pools of magma earthsky.org/earth/cascade-v… via @earthskyscience

Cascade volcanoes still have large pools of magma

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This Heroic Dog Raced Across the Frozen Alaskan Wilderness to Deliver Life-Saving Medicine—but His Contributions Were Long Overlooked - smithsonianmag.com/history/t… @smithsonianmag

This Heroic Dog Raced Across the Frozen Alaskan Wilderness to Deliver Life-Saving Medicine—but His...

Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria

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The case for subspecies – the neglected unit of conservation – aeon.co/essays/the-case-for-… via @aeonmag

The case for subspecies – the neglected unit of conservation | Aeon Essays

To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities

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Wonderful piece. Let’s Hear It for the Coyote Hiding in the Produce Aisle nytimes.com/2025/01/27/opini…

Opinion | Let’s Hear It for the Coyote Hiding in the Produce Aisle (Published 2025)

The wild creatures who have adapted to our ways are adept at remaining out of sight. But they are here, and they will always be with us.

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"We quantified global artificial illuminance caused by skyglow, finding that skyglow artificially doubled illuminance of new moon conditions—a critical phase for biological processes." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Light levels resulting from natural and artificial sources that affect animal behavior and fitness-related traits. The values along the circumference represent the light levels in millilux (mlux) observed from sunset to natural starlight conditions. The right and left halves of the circle represent natural light levels and artificial light levels, respectively.

ALT Light levels resulting from natural and artificial sources that affect animal behavior and fitness-related traits. The values along the circumference represent the light levels in millilux (mlux) observed from sunset to natural starlight conditions. The right and left halves of the circle represent natural light levels and artificial light levels, respectively.

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Xenobots are tiny living robots that can be put to work. They are also the first created organisms that can self-replicate and evolve. nautil.us/the-uncanny-valley…

The Uncanny Valley of Xenobots - Nautilus

These tiny living robots can now replicate and evolve—and be put to work.

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