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Just one RNA virus, SARS-CoV-2, has changed the lives of billions of people in the past three years. What if I told you that a recent expedition found more than 5,500 new species of RNA viruses in oc… [+8843 chars]
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After a report from a customer of strange prints on the restaurants floor, Chinese paleontologists were brought in to investigate, and they confirmed that the depressions had, in fact, been left by t… [+707 chars]
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