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Sarah Zielinski

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Sarah Zielinski is a science writer and editor with more than a decade of experience covering a wide breadth of science, from astronomy to zoology. A former editor at Smithsonian magazine, she has been published in Scientific American, Discover, National Geographic News, Science and Slate. The winner of the DCSWA 2010 Science News Brief Award, she has a B.A. in biological sciences from Cornell University and an M.A. in journalism through New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. She writes the blog Wild Things at Science News.

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venus flytrap and beetle
The notch-tipped flower longhorn beetle was one of the most common species found on Venus flytrap flowers.
C. SORENSON
 Plants
Venus flytraps tend not to eat their pollinators
Little overlap found among critters that serve as pollinator and prey
2017 editors' picks
What were our editors' top stories of 2017? Read on to find out.
Nancy Moulding/SNS
 From the Editor
Revisit 2017's most important stories
Here’s the year in review, focusing on the top 10 major stories
coconut crab
Coconut crabs, the world’s largest invertebrate found on land, have been caught attacking seabirds on remote islands in the Indian Ocean.
Janos/istockphoto
 Animals
Humongous land crab dines on remote-island seabirds
Their attacks may influence where certain birds can survive in one Indian Ocean archipelago
alligator eating nurse shark
This alligator was spotted eating a nurse shark in a wildlife refuge on Sanibel Island, Fla., in August 2003. The sighting helped to confirm that shark is part of some gators’ diets.
COURTESY OF U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE J.N. "DING" DARLING NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
 Animals
Alligators aren’t just freshwater animals
These reptiles have been caught in salty waters snacking on shark
earthworm soil

Where worms are ecological newcomers, such as in the U.S. Upper Midwest. There invasive earthworms seem to be causing problems.

BENKETARO/FLICKR (CC-BY 2.0)

 Plants
Earthworm invaders may be stressing out some maples
Worms are only great for soil when ecosystems have evolved with them
a hand holding a cloud

Weather control is the stuff of science fiction, but scientists have made it at least a little bit real. Whether people should be controlling their weather, though, is another matter.

Nastco/iStockphoto

 Weather & Climate
Is weather control a dream or nightmare?
People are changing the weather, and that may not be good