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SOMETHING’S FISHY...

Top Scientist Sounds Alarm Over Russia’s ‘Plague’ Mystery

The MIT researcher doesn’t buy the “broken test tube” narrative.

Vic Verbalaitis

STRANGER FINS

Scientists Make ‘Demon’ Species Discovery Under Army Base

Scientists said the discovery is “a little like finding a new kind of big cat.”

Martha McHardy

HELIX HERO

Famed Scientist Who Co-Discovered DNA Structure Dies at 97

James Watson also helped start the Human Genome Project and wrote a popular memoir.

Vic Verbalaitis

TSA dog Lara with her handler Eric Vega are shown in Terminal A at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Houston.

BRAIN DRAIN

Scientist Refused Entry to U.S. Over Texts Criticizing Trump

The researcher, who was headed to a conference in Houston, was subjected to a “random” security check and detained after officials went through his cellphone.

Tom Sanders

Scientists found oxygen can be produced in the dark

ORIGINS OF LIFE

Dark Oxygen Provides Clue to Origins of Life Under the Sea

Sunlight has always been thought necessary to the production of oxygen but new findings appear to show that it is also created thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface.

David Gardner