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They were followed by a mammoth and giant sloth.

PLOS, the nonprofit publisher that in 2003 pioneered the open-access business model of charging authors to publish scientific articles so they are immediately free to all, this week rolled out an alternative model that could herald the end of the author-pays era. One of the new options shifts the cost of […]

The spacecraft used the gravitational pull of the planet to help alter its speed and direction.

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First up, host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and chief research officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board. Echo-Hawk shares what inspired her journey in public health and explains the repercussions of excluding native people from health data. This story was originally […]

Even as babies, tyrannosaurs had a “distinct chin.”

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Bill Nye has had it with flat-Earthers and other science deniers.