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Life on our planet has experienced many mass extinctions over its 4.5 billion years. Scientists see evidence for at least five major episodes that eradicated creatures great and small. And many ...

Indeed, the proposed remedies for making science less authoritarian, such as shifting NIH grant funding to states in the form of “block” grants (recommended by the conservative policy agenda ...

“The most puzzling aspect of the recent discovery of a new kind of subnuclear particle at two high-energy-­physics laboratories is the particle’s extra­ordinarily long lifetime of 10 –20 ...

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