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With Aid Cutoff, Trump Halts Agency’s Legacy of ‘Acting With Humanity’

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Funds from the world’s richest nation once flowed from the largest global aid agency to an intricate network of small, medium and large...
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Why the Odds of an Asteroid Striking Earth in 2032 Keep Going Up (and Down)

Barbara Chase -
Since December, astronomers have been carefully studying whether an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long will impact the Earth in just under...
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In Greenland, the Ice Doesn’t Just Flow, It Quivers and Quakes

Barbara Chase -
When Andreas Fichtner unspooled a fiber-optic cable into a deep hole in Greenland’s ice, he wasn’t expecting to discover a whole new way...
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Scared of Spiders? Also Scared of Zombies? We Have Some Bad News.

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An abandoned gunpowder storage shed pokes out from a small mound of earth in what’s now a nature preserve in Northern Ireland. It...
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Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order

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Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa,...
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Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient

Barbara Chase -
Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig into a 66-year-old man with kidney failure last month, Massachusetts General...
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C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People

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Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to...
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Humpback Whales Sing the Way Humans Speak

Barbara Chase -
The English language is full of wonderful words, from “anemone” and “aurora” to “zenith” and “zodiac.”But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly...
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What Lurks in This Flower’s Bizarrely Large Y Chromosome?

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The vast majority of plants are hermaphrodites, with both male and female reproductive parts. Oaks, some orchids, the potted spider plant in your...
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How to Boil an Egg? Scientists Claim to Have Cracked the Recipe.

Barbara Chase -
A colleague approached Ernesto Di Maio, a materials scientist in Naples, Italy, and an expert in plastic foams, with a blunt suggestion: “You...
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