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Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: It sounds like a horror movie – billions of miniature, bear-like creatures crawling through the lawns and

Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: It sounds like a horror movie – billions of miniature, bear-like creatures crawling through the lawns and

Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: Christmas lists abound with “stuff” that is usually manufactured, bought, discarded, and ultimately piles up in landfills.

Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: Cutting-edge technology helps save rhinos in India The North Carolina Museum of Natural History’s new Nature Research

Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: Yttrium, promethium, europium and luterium may sound like mythological characters, but they’re rare-earth elements that comprise the

Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: The U.S. military is moving aggressively to reduce its energy “bootprint.” The Department of Defense is our

Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: The time was 4:24 a.m. I sat upright in bed, awakened by an inspirational choir that just

Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: Did you know that over 70 species of ants live in Raleigh? A survey of urban insects,

Below is an article written by Dr. Lowman in newsobserver.com: A biological inventory project, called the Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), was recently launched to catalog

Below is an article written by Dr. Lowman in newsobserver.com: “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir Like

There is one important difference between ecology and many other fascinating sciences and games: unsolved problems of chess, astronomy, or mathematics will not change if