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IUCN welcomes Total’s ‘no-go’ commitment in World Heritage sites

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Mountain gorilla, Virunga National Park, World Heritage site

NIH, industry and non-profits join forces to speed validation of disease targets

The U.S. National Institutes of Health, 10 biopharmaceutical companies and several nonprofit organizations launched an unprecedented partnership to transform the current model for identifying and validating the most promis...

Sixteen Juveniles Recovered in Joint Super Bowl Operation Targeting Underage Prostitution

The FBI, in partnership with more than 50 law enforcement agencies, recovered 16 juveniles during an enforcement action focused on commercial child sex trafficking. Additionally, more than 45 pimps and their associates wer...

Kepler Finds a Very Wobbly Planet

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This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a clo...