Science
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Russian Prosecutors Finalize Indictment of Evan Gershkovich
The Wall Street Journal reporter will be tried on a spying charge in Yekaterinburg, the city where he was arrested…
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Fire in Kuwait Worker Housing Leaves at Least 35 Dead
The blaze struck a building that was home to scores of low-paid migrant workers, many of them from India.
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A Big Whack That Made the Moon May Have Also Created Continents That Move
Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the heat to…
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Chiquita Held Liable for Deaths During Colombian Civil War
A South Florida jury found the company liable for killings committed by a paramilitary group that was on the banana…
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Was This Sea Creature Our Ancestor? Scientists Turn a Famous Fossil on its Head.
Researchers have long assumed that a tube in the famous Pikaia fossil ran along the animal’s back. But a new…
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Foraging on Public Lands Is Becoming More Limited
Collecting wild mushrooms, berries and other foods from public forests and parks has become so popular that state and federal…
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The Mushroom Hunters Can’t Stop Finding Mysterious Fungi
Strange things appear in the forests and chaparral of California after a big rain. Invigorated by the damp, fungi living…
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As the War in Gaza Drags on, Palestinians in the West Bank Have ‘Reached Rock Bottom’
As the war in Gaza enters its eighth month, Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank continue to…
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Nigeria Confronts Its Worst Economic Crisis in a Generation
People in Africa’s most populous nation are suffering as the price of food, fuel and medicine has skyrocketed out of…
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Aircraft Carrying Malawi’s Vice President Is Missing
A search is underway after the aircraft carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people vanished.