Politics
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Deer Are Everywhere, but We Barely Know Them
A decade-old research project in Pennsylvania has been revealing the secret lives of familiar woodland mammals.
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Lab Leak Fight Casts Chill Over Virology Research
Scientists doing “gain-of-function” research said that heightened fears of lab leaks are stalling studies that could thwart the next pandemic…
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Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)
There is no free will, according to Robert Sapolsky, a biologist and neurologist at Stanford University and a recipient of…
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How Megafires Are Remaking the World
On Aug. 15, a small wildfire was detected in the hills above West Kelowna, in British Columbia. The landscape was…
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NASA’s Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid Is Ready to Launch
The journey on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket has been delayed this week by poor weather conditions.
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The Human Brain Has a Dizzying Array of Mystery Cells
Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously known, and have only…
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When, Where and How to Watch the Annular Solar Eclipse
The so-called “ring of fire” will grace the skies of the Western Hemisphere on Saturday.
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Fossil Reveals Ancient Seafloor Communities
Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years.
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When Female Frogs Face the Mating Ball, They Pretend to Croak
Female frogs have evolved a variety of tactics to avoid the advances of overeager males, proving they’re not defenseless and…
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Scientists Use CRISPR to Make Chickens More Resistant to Bird Flu
A new study highlights both the promise and the limitations of gene editing, as a highly lethal form of avian…