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A new National Academies report recommends ways for the U.S. to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence in biotechnology ...

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Cornell researcher Raina Plowright and her team observed that when bats in Australia lost access to their habitat and natural ...

A team from EL PAÍS joins the Spanish expedition which has detected the spread of deadly avian flu among Antarctic fauna ...