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Daddy Longlegs Have Been Hiding Extra Eyes From Us

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Guilherme Gainett, then a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was looking through a microscope at the embryo of a daddy longlegs when...
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Two Young Climate Scientists. Two Visions of the Solution.

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Two good friends, Rebecca Grekin and Yannai Kashtan, met up one crisp December morning at Stanford University, where they both study and teach....
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Columbia Official Is Accused of Plagiarizing Dissertation From Wikipedia

Barbara Chase -
An official in charge of diversity, equity and inclusion at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center was accused this week of plagiarizing large sections...
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Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, C.D.C. Says

Barbara Chase -
The study found that deaths linked to alcohol in the United States increased in five years by 40,000. The toll is stark:...
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2 Scientists in Canada Passed On Secrets to China, Investigations Find

Barbara Chase -
Two scientists who worked at Canada’s top microbiology lab passed on secret scientific information to China, and one of them was a “realistic...
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R.S.V. Vaccines May Slightly Increase Risk of Rare Neurological Condition

Barbara Chase -
Vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus may have caused a few cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare neurological condition, federal health officials said on...
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Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89

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Guy Alexandre, a Belgian transplant surgeon who in the 1960s risked professional censure by removing kidneys from brain-dead patients whose hearts were still...
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Nursing Home Staffing Shortages and Other Problems Persist, U.S. Report Says

Barbara Chase -
Many Americans prefer to believe the Covid pandemic is a thing of the past. But for the nation’s nursing homes, the effects have...
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Climate Change Is Raising Texas’ Already High Wildfire Risks

Barbara Chase -
Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in Texas, a danger made real this week as the Smokehouse Creek fire, the largest...
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Researchers Dispute Claim That Ancient Whale Was Heaviest Animal Ever

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Last August, a team of paleontologists announced that they had discovered the fossilized bones of a gigantic ancient whale. Perucetus, as they named...
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