Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research

Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research

On April 1, the Trump administration’s effort to slash government funding arrived in Morgantown, W.Va., where federal scientists spent their days studying health and safety threats to American workers. That morning, hundreds of employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health were notified that they were being terminated …

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Could Monkeys Really Type All of Shakespeare?

Could Monkeys Really Type All of Shakespeare?

Science doesn’t usually tolerate frivolity, but the infinite monkey theorem enjoys an exception. The question it poses is thoroughly outlandish: Could an infinite number of monkeys, each given an infinite amount of time to peck away at a typewriter (stocked with an infinite supply of paper, presumably) eventually produce, by …

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