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No jail time for Kansas professor convicted for undisclosed research ties to China

A federal judge today handed down the lightest possible sentence in the U.S. government’s case against University of Kansas (KU), Lawrence, chemical engineer Franklin Tao. The decision is the latest rejection by U.S. courts of the government’s attempt to prosecute Chinese-born scientists for lapses in reporting their research interactions with China. U.S....

Echidnas blow snot bubbles to cool down

Short-beaked echidnas may be one of nature’s strangest looking creatures. Resembling a pug-size hedgehog with the schnoz of an anteater, they are one of only five living species of monotreme, that rare mammal that lays eggs. They’re also encased in a coat of stiff spines and lack the ability to sweat—features that should kill them in the scorching deserts of Australia they call...