Maggie Villiger

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Emerging Science Note/SoyScreen

Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on SoyScreen, a sunscreen made from soybean oil and bran.

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Emerging Science Note/Dragonfly Hide & Seek

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Emerging Science Note/SoyScreen

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Emerging Science Note/Sex & the Single Worm

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Emerging Science Note/Bio-camouflage

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Emerging Science Note/From the Belly of a Penguin

Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on how penguins can store food for weeks in their stomachs without it spoiling.

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Emerging Science Note/Ghost Nets

Ghost nets are lost or abandoned fishing gear that drift through the ocean, causing big problems for marine creatures. Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on coordinated surveillance technology that aims to track down and get rid of these errant nets.

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Grass Art

You’ve heard of black and white pictures, but how about green and yellow? Artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey use live grass as a photographic medium. Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on how they create their unique photos, and how collaboration with grass scientists is lending durability to their work.

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Technology Note/Toggle Science

Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on a new development in nanotechnology, a surface that can toggle back and forth from water repelling to water attractive at the flip of a switch.

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Animal Note/Frenzied Ants

Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on the chemical weapons a wasp uses to get into an ant nest to lay its eggs inside a caterpillar hiding inside.