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Stranded Killer Whale Survives With Assist of Good Samaritans
Boaters in Alaska saw a strange sight on Thursday: A six-meter-long killer whale lay on the shore, stuck in a crevice.Someone on a boat spotted the orca on Prince of Wales Island near the coast of British Columbia, Julie Fair, a spokeswoman…
A Plant That ‘Can’t Die’ Reveals Its Genetic Secrets and techniques
About 86 million years ago, after a failure in cell division, the entire Welwitschia genome doubled during a period of increasing aridity and prolonged drought in the region - and possibly the formation of the Namib Desert itself, said Tao…
In South Africa, Poachers Now Visitors in Tiny Succulent Crops
STEINKOPF, South Africa — On a moonless night in the desert in the far west of South Africa, Avrill Kaffer had just finished making a sale when vehicles with flashing lights emerged out of the darkness and an officer from the Stock Theft…
Instances Crew Explains Chicago’s Local weather Drawback Visually
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.In Chicago, a climate tug of war is occurring, and the city’s signature natural feature — Lake Michigan — is…
These Virus Sequences That Had been All of a sudden Deleted? They’re Again
A pile of early coronavirus data that was missing for a year has emerged from its hiding place.In June, an American scientist discovered that more than 200 genetic sequences from Covid-19 patient samples isolated in China at the beginning…
Vaccinated Individuals Might Unfold the Virus, Although Hardly ever, C.D.C. Reviews
The agency heightened concerns about the spread of the virus in its report on Friday and even urged jurisdictions with undetectable levels of the virus to take precautionary measures. But the CDC's internal document sounded much more…
Some Are Chasing Further Vaccine Pictures, Whereas Scientists Debate
Many scientists say that vaccinated people are unlikely to need a booster dose anytime soon. Some get it anyway.They go to local pharmacies, in other states, or even in other countries - anywhere that they don't have a record of their…
Biden Seeks to Revive Vaccine Effort With New Guidelines and Incentives
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday sought to revive the nation’s stalled push to vaccinate Americans against the surging Delta variant of the coronavirus, announcing new requirements for federal workers to be vaccinated and urging…
Albert Bandura, Main Psychologist of Aggression, Dies at 95
"I felt related to the battered Bobo doll," he wrote.In the end, his work caught on, and his insights become even more important in a world where social media and a 24-hour news cycle for models of violence have a much wider reach.The Bobo…
A Carbon Calculation: How Many Deaths Do Emissions Trigger?
In his essay, Mr. Bressler incorporated recent public health research into the latest version of the DICE model, estimating the number of additional deaths due to rising temperatures. The resulting expanded model yielded an amazingly high…