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I write to endorse strongly Kip Pope’s March 31 “My Turn” article, “UI trustees Can Do Better.” As Pope notes, if Larry Gies or anyone else truly cares about the history and public nature of Memorial ...

In a world first, scientists at Bar-Ilan University say they have discovered that a single-letter switch in a region of the genome once dismissed as “junk DNA” can reverse the biological sex of a ...

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President Trump says he launched a war to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons and attacking the United States. Many experts — including our own intelligence analysts — question whether that ...