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							<title><![CDATA[Earth's Seen Sudden Warming--It Wiped Out Almost Everything]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/science/climate-change-mass-extinction.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Carl Zimmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In some ways, the planet's worst mass extinction &mdash; 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period &mdash; may parallel climate change today.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Carl Zimmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the years, scientists have come up with a lot of ideas about why we sleep. Some have argued that it&rsquo;s a way to save energy. Others have suggested that slumber provides an opportunity to clear away the brain&rsquo;s cellular waste. Still others have proposed that sleep simply...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scientists See Big Flaws in Arsenic-Based Life Study]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2276919</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Carl Zimmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Dec. 2, Rosie Redfield sat down to read a new paper called, "A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus." Despite its innocuous title, the paper had great ambitions. Every living thing that scientists have ever studied uses phosphorus to build the...]]></description>
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