Science & Society
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Lost to history: The “churk”
More than a half-century ago, researchers at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center outside Washington, D.C., engaged in some creative barnyard breeding. Their goal was the development of fatherless turkeys — virgin hens that would reproduce via parthenogenesis. Along the way, and ostensibly quite by accident, an interim stage of this work resulted in a rooster-fathered hybrid that the scientists termed a churk.
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Alexandra Witze, Earth in action
Loss of eyes in the sky hurts science on the ground.
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Blood Work
A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker.
