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“We’d lose one after the next”: Texas bats face a pandemic of their own
Weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic swept into Texas, a biologist found a dead bat covered in a white fungus — the state’s first official case of white-nose syndrome. Now, scientists are on a mission…
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14mCrypto kiosks were used to scam $56 million from Texans last year. Lawmakers are calling for regulation.
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