The Trump Administration Wants Seafloor Mining. What Does That Mean?
Life at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is slow, dark and quiet. Strange creatures glitter and glow. Oxygen seeps
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‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal
A federal prosecutor in Washington has contacted The New England Journal of Medicine, considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal,
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F.D.A. Scientists Are Reinstated at Agency Food Safety Labs
Federal health officials have reversed the decision to fire a few dozen scientists at the Food and Drug Administration’s food-safety
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“Bone collector” caterpillar disguises itself in the remains of its prey, scientists say
A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the “bone collector.” The insect is
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Trump vs. Science – The New York Times
Late yesterday, Sethuraman Panchanathan, whom President Trump hired to run the National Science Foundation five years ago, quit. He didn’t
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Trump Takes a Major Step Toward Seabed Mining in International Waters
President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor,
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Who Founded Carthage? New Genetic Study Upturns Old View
Phoenicians no doubt traveled to and from Carthage, he said, and over the six or seven centuries of its Punic
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‘Bone Collector’ Caterpillars Don’t Play With Their Food. They Wear It.
Hawaii is a beautiful tropical paradise and also home to formidable creepy crawly predators. There are spiders that impale prey
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U.S. Officials to Cut Funding for Landmark Study of Women’s Health
Federal health officials plan to cut funding to the Women’s Health Initiative, effectively shuttering one of the largest and longest
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These Apes Are Matriarchal, but It Doesn’t Mean They’re Peaceful
Male domination is the natural order of things, some people say. But bonobos, primates with whom we share nearly 99
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