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Kunz and his coauthors review the role of bats in providing ecosystem services, focusing primarily on those that regulate and provide services needed to sustain humankind, with a brief overview of supporting and cultural services. One of the grand challenges that society faces is how best to identify, protect and conserve services that are critical for human and ecosystem health.

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A new NASA-funded study that shows widespread reductions in the greenness of forests in the vast Amazon basin in South America were caused by the record-breaking drought of 2010.

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The Boston University Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience is launching a new high school outreach program this semester thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The brainchild of two undergraduate students, the program includes a semester-long course, paid summer lab experience, and visits from area high school science classes.

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An international research team led by scientists from the Boston University and the University of Illinois has developed a new way to measure the muon lifetime. This new measurement—the most precise determination of any subatomic particle lifetime yet devised—provides a high-accuracy value for a crucial parameter determining the strength of the weak nuclear force.

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Through an unprecedented research-operations partnership, the Boston University-based Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM) and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center are transitioning the first large-scale, physics-based space weather prediction model from research into operations.