airborne
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Their results indicate that Thrinaxodon probably had an eardrum large enough to detect airborne sound efficiently, pushing the origin of this trait back by nearly 50 million years.
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The method also tracks how plastics move between different environmental pathways, including airborne particles, dustfall, rain, snow, and dust resuspension.
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Iron reaches the oceans mainly through airborne dust from deserts and dry regions, as well as through meltwater released by glaciers.
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Many scientists believe that airborne transmission is a major driver of flu spread.
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It is only logical, writes Mr. Scharf in “The Giant Leap,” that this life should then spread itself through space in what he terms a great “dispersal,” as though humans were airborne seeds or spores.
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