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Steven Wise, Champion of Animal Rights, Is Dead at 73

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Steven M. Wise, a pioneering animal rights lawyer who gave voice to clients unable to testify on their own behalf, demanding the same...
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Duke Shuts Down Huge Plant Collection, Causing Scientific Uproar

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Duke University has decided to close its herbarium, a collection of 825,000 specimens of plants, fungi and algae that was established more than...
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A Voracious Black Hole at the Dawn of Time?

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Astronomers claimed on Monday that they had discovered what might be the hungriest, most luminous object in the visible universe — a supermassive...
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Jeff Koons Sculptures Hitch Ride on SpaceX Rocket to the Moon

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The American artist Jeff Koons watched as a SpaceX rocket carrying 125 of his miniature moon sculptures and other cargo departed from the...
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California Tried to Ban Plastic Grocery Bags. It Didn’t Work.

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Almost a decade ago, California became the first state in the United States to ban single-use plastic bags in an effort to tackle...
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What Scientists Learned from the Oldest Wild Platypus Ever Found

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The platypus, a unique egg-laying mammal native to Australia, faces many threats in the wild: climate change, predators, pollution, floods and shrinking freshwater...
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Now Hibernating: Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

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By Matt RichtelReported from ice-cream shops and frozen-food aisles in Boulder, Colo.Feb. 15, 2024Banana pudding, chocolate fudge brownie, salted caramel, Cherry Garcia, Dr...
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U.S. Agencies Open Inquiry Into Generic Drug Shortages

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The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services said on Wednesday that they would examine the causes of generic...
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Can Your Cat Give You the Plague?

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How common is it?In the United States, there are an average of seven human cases per year, according to the Centers for Disease...
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Mysterious Pattern in a Cave Is Oldest Rock Art Found in Patagonia

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In the stark inland desert of Patagonia in Argentina, there is a remote cave decorated with nearly 900 paintings of human figures, animals...
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