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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I bought a Kindle recently, and excitedly ...

Rutherford's life and his work has been diligently chronicled in a new book by Kiwi author Matthew Wright called Ernest ...

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In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska into goo. Its name, sea star wasting disease (SSWD), ...