Russia's authorities and its people have recently found themselves locked into two powerful political conflicts. One, in Moscow, stems from the elections to the City Duma, where the arrests of unregistered independent candidates sparked the largest…

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Since it launched last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has made three dives toward the sun as it reached the fastest speed ever clocked by a human-built vehicle. Scientists released the mission's first batch of findings on Wednesday, revealing that…

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Not so long ago, the northern seas were full of great auks. Every summer, millions of the two-toned, goose-sized birds would gather at different breeding grounds across the North Atlantic. The flightless birds were easy to capture, and passing…

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Known as the world's smelliest fruit, durians are also essential to the farming economy of Indonesia. Although repulsive to many Western noses — some compare the smell to rotting trash — durians command the highest unit price of any…

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GENEVA, N.Y. — Across the country, hundreds of kinds of apples were meticulously developed by orchardists over the last couple of centuries and then, as farms and groves were abandoned and commercial production greatly narrowed the number of…

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