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Which Animal Species Get Along the Best?
We have all come across or actively sought out videos of unlikely animals putting aside their differences to nuzzle one another or engage in similar cute behaviour, like when a larger animal gives a smaller animal a piggyback ride. There is of course an entire television show devoted to this phenomenon, plus thousands of viral…
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CDC Finds No Smallpox in Frozen Vials Suspiciously Labelled ‘Smallpox’
Days after a Pennsylvania lab was locked down because a worker discovered vials labelled “smallpox” in a freezer, the CDC says there’s no reason to fear a viral outbreak. Late Thursday night, federal officials announced that the vials did not contain the deadly and eradicated variola virus. Instead, they held a related but much tamer…
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Austria to Require COVID-19 Vaccinations for Everybody in February
Several European countries introduced new restrictions this week on people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and there was even an announcement from Austria on Friday that COVID-19 vaccinations will become mandatory in February.
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The Search for Life Around Alpha Centauri Just Took a Major Leap Forward
Our nearest neighbour, Alpha Centauri, is 4.37 light-years from Earth, which is super close from a cosmological perspective but achingly far from a human point of view. A new telescope promises to bring this intriguing star system, and any habitable planets it holds, into closer view.