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Xenotransplants: Modified pig hearts transplanted into dead people kept on life support
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Wildfires Are Putting Giant Sequoias at Existential Risk
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Bees vs wasps: Which insect is really worthy of all the buzz?
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James Webb Space Telescope releases dazzling first science images
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