Stanford's student paper just took down the prestigious school's president

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Stanford University Campus in 2021.
Stanford University Campus in 2021.

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The rise and fall of Juul: The e-cigarette maker's comeback plan includes a high-tech vape and a 'shots-on-goal' approach to the FDA

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Close-up of a man vaping a Juul.

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The weather is so chaotic that tourists are risking their lives to take selfies with a giant thermometer in Death Valley

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A tourist in Death Valley takes a selfie with the local thermometer.

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Albert Einstein wrote to the US pleading with the government to build an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Here's what he said.

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A composite image showing Albert Einstein around 1939 and nuclear explosion in French Polynesia in October 1971.

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The Black scientists behind the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb program that inspired the movie 'Oppenheimer'

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William Jacob Knox, Jr., Samuel Proctor Massie, and Carolyn Parker were among the handful of Black scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project.
William Jacob Knox, Jr., Samuel Proctor Massie, and Carolyn Parker were among the handful of Black scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project.

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A video of a whale appearing to ask for humans to remove parasites went viral. An expert says tourists are hurting the creatures, not helping.

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Tourists are able to caress whales, but pulling parasites out is not a good idea

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A new fossil shows a prehistoric badger-like mammal and a dinosaur locked in 'mortal combat'

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A fossil of a Psittacosaurus dinosaur and Repenomamus mammal skeletons fighting, with the mammal on top and biting into the dinosaur
The Repenomamus is on top of the Psittacosaurus, biting into its ribs.

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Scientists shot tardigrades out of a gun at more than 2,000 mph to see if the critters could survive

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Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a water bear, or tardigrade.
Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a water bear, or tardigrade.

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55 whales may have died in a mass stranding because they refused to leave the side of an injured female

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A view of dead whales after a mass stranding in North Tolsta, Isle of Lewis on July 16, 2023.

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Elon Musk says his new AI venture could help us understand why we haven't met any aliens yet

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Elon Musk in a leather jacket poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Awards
Elon Musk.

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