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King cobras, the world’s longest venomous snakes, are popping up in parts of India where they have no business being—and it ...

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The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an ...

A straightforward case of measles is nasty—but the disease’s complications are even worse. One of those complications has ...

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