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Rewilding with Teeth

Can reintroducing apex hunters

reinvigorate damaged ecosystems?

BY KATARINA ZIMMER

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Vaccines with a Bonus

For decades, studies have found hints

that some vaccines help protect against

pathogens they weren’t designed to

target. Researchers are now striving to

understand how such inoculations might

be used to save more lives.

BY SHAWNA WILLIAMS

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A Gray Whale Murder Mystery

For the past two years, the charismatic

marine mammals have been washing up

on Pacific shores in record numbers,

spurring scientists to investigate.

BY ASHLEY YEAGER

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