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A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

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World leaders are dismantling global health programs and cutting back foreign aid. Will an extraordinary new medicine be able ...

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A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable ...

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