Science
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Bird Flu May Have Caused Seal Strandings
The highly pathogenic avian influenza strain that has whipped through flocks of domestic poultry and wild birds this year may…
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NASA’s CAPSTONE Launch to the Moon: How to Watch
At the start of 2022, a variety of launches to the moon by space agencies and private companies appeared to…
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Remember Pizza Rat? Meet Pollinator Rat.
Birds do it. So do bees. Especially bees. But common rats pollinating plants? In a study published in June in…
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When Antlers Tangle, Sometimes Both Animals Lose
As the days of summer days passgrow longer, so do the antlers get longer onof deer, moose, elk and other…
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Not Just for the Birds: Avian Influenza Is Also Felling Wild Mammals
Something was wrong with the foxes. That was what callers to the Dane County Humane Society in Wisconsin kept saying…
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Earth’s Largest Rodents Were Smaller Than We Once Thought
Modern rodents range in size from pygmy mice weighing less than an ounce to stocky capybaras pushing 175 pounds. But…
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NASA Plans to Join U.F.O. Research Efforts
U.F.O.s almost certainly are not alien visitors buzzing Earth’s skies, but NASA is nonetheless financing a study that will look…
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Mysteries Linger About Covid’s Origins, W.H.O. Report Says
In its first report, a team of international scientists assembled by the World Health Organization to advise on the origins…
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Tree Rings Shed Light on a Stradivarius Mystery
History is revealed in tree rings. They have been used to determine the ages of historical buildings as well as…
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How Anonymous Is Bitcoin, Really?
Alyssa Blackburn, a data scientist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has spent several years performing…