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Some scientists think we can better understand volcanoes by learning how the gaseous vortices...

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    There are similarities between how volcanoes huff out these halos and how dolphins blow bubble rings or how smokers exhale smoke rings. And the volcanic versions are commonly called smoke rings, although they’re actually made mostly of water vapor. https://t.co/KkIW6KS9Tg - view on twitter

X-ray technology has allowed researchers a glimpse at the reaches of the Yellowstone landmark’s prized stone and its importance to Indigenous...

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    The smooth, sensuous black glass has been an important part of hunter-gatherer cultures for about two million years, going back to Homo habilis, one of the first human ancestors who made crude stone tools. https://t.co/3893b0IhJn - view on twitter

Forty-one bent or twisted iron nails, unearthed from a second-century imperial burial site, were meant to keep the deceased in their...

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Critically endangered species and ones banned from international trade are among the hundreds of types birds, reptiles and mammals that researchers identified at 142...

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    In an exhaustive survey of Japan’s exotic animal cafes, researchers found thousands of animals belonging to 419 different species, 52 of which are threatened with extinction. https://t.co/7RBGQJX4XP - view on twitter

Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus that health officials hoped to contain is now in more than half the 50 states, according to a new...

In New York, fentanyl test strips are becoming more common as a way to fight an overdose crisis, and more states are pushing to...

Critically endangered species and ones banned from international trade are among the hundreds of types birds, reptiles and mammals that researchers identified at 142...

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    Nine of the exotic species researchers found in Japan’s animal cafes, including endangered slow lorises and critically endangered radiated tortoises, are strictly banned from international trade https://t.co/u9DhaHNWx4 - view on twitter

Wyoming’s Constitution guarantees a right to make individual health care decisions. The new ban attempts to circumvent that right by declaring that abortion is...

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    Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming, for now, after a judge ordered a temporary halt to a new abortion ban. That ban and another law that is the nation’s first ban on medication abortion will be evaluated in a hearing in a lawsuit challenging both laws. https://t.co/iSwRPXAaOV - view on twitter