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The sturddlefish has a mix of genes from the Russian sturgeon and the American spoonbill. (Credit: Genes 2020, 11 (7), 753; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11070753, CC BY 4.0) It shouldn’t have been possible, but it was: the birth of long-nosed, pointy-finned hybrids of Russian sturgeons and American spoonbills. Hungarian scientists announced in the …

Comet Neowise or C / 2020 F3 is seen over the Turets, Belarus, 110 kilometers (69 miles) west of … [+] Capital Minsk, early Tuesday July 14, 2020. (AP Photo / Sergei Grits) ASSOCIATED PRESS Comet NEOWISE has dazzled sky watchers in the northern hemisphere, but it is on its …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s promotion of a documentary on animal rights in 2005 led to the end of a dangerous bus hostage situation in northwestern Ukraine on Tuesday. Maksym Kryvosh, 44, an animal rights activist and ex-con armed with guns and explosives, allegedly took the small bus on Tuesday, only …

Adobe has hired Marc Levoy, the computer photography pioneer who led the development of innovative technologies found in Google’s Pixel smartphones. Levoy will now bring his expertise to help Adobe develop a “universal camera app.” Levoy became a professor of computer science at Stanford in 1990, focusing on computer graphics …

JOB LinkedIn to fire nearly 1,000 LinkedIn is laying off nearly 1,000 employees, roughly 6 percent of its workforce globally, with unemployment in the United States above 13 percent and national economies from Europe and Asia to the Americas, declining due to the pandemic. The outbreak has disrupted trade globally, …