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Turkey vultures in California are testing positive for rat poison
Despite statewide restrictions on the deadly poisons, new research shows they’re still infiltrating the food web.
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Read an unpublished excerpt from Carl Zimmer's new book Air-Borne.
Carl Zimmer is an air-head. You should be one too.
In his new book Air-Borne, the prolific science journalist traces investigations into aerobiology, from famous scientists like Louis Pasteur to the husband-and-wife duo who discovered how bacteria spread in the air, before being “thrown into oblivion”
Confusion, coercion, and compliance in the ongoing research emergency
A conversation with Nature reporter Max Kozlov
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