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USAID Climate Programs Fighting Extremism and Unrest Are Closing Down

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Numerous programs aimed at averting violence, instability and extremism worsened by global warming are ensnared in the effort to dismantle the main American...
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The Gene That Made Mice Squeak Strangely

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Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved. Words and sentences don’t leave fossils behind for paleontologists to dig up.A genetic...
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Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders

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The notices came all weekend, landing in the inboxes of federal scientists, doctors and public health professionals: Your work is no longer needed.At...
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An Invisible Medical Shortage: Oxygen

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At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people in poor nations died literally gasping for breath, even in hospitals. What they...
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Louis Pasteur’s Relentless Hunt for Germs Floating in the Air

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Louis Pasteur was at his most comfortable when working in his Paris laboratory. It was there that he had some of his greatest...
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On a Mission to Heal Gila Monsters

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By any measure, the diabetes drug Ozempic has been a blockbuster, racking up billions of dollars in annual sales. In the United States...
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She’s Trying to Stay Ahead of Alzheimer’s, in a Race to the Death

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Soon, Irene Mekel will need to pick the day she dies.She’s not in any hurry: She quite likes her life, in a trim,...
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New Insights Into Older Hearts

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It turns out that the Isley Brothers, who sang that 1966 Motown hit “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You),” were...
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New Insights Into Older Hearts

Barbara Chase -
It turns out that the Isley Brothers, who sang that 1966 Motown hit “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You),” were...
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Meet the Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds

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In early February, Vishvaa Rajakumar, a 20-year-old Indian college student, recently won the Memory League World Championship, an online competition pitting people against...
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