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Miller moths migrate through the state every summer and are sometimes considered to be a pest.
Some say Latin names are elitist and incomprehensible, but they started out as a way to be inclusive.
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The losses include millions of dollars the NIH has already spent on research that will no longer generate results, and the…
Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians…