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Freelance journalist Lesley Evans Ogden writes from Coast Salish territory in the verdant suburbs of Vancouver, Canada. A ...

More than 50 years after Bob Paine’s experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been pronounced “keystones” in their ...

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An experiment claims to have invalidated a decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that eliminates the most baffling features of the subatomic ...