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China’s Ban on Wildlife Trade a Big Step, but Has Loopholes, Conservationists Say
The coronavirus epidemic prompted China to permanently ban trade of wild animals as food, but not for medicinal use.
Why Are These Foxes Tame? Maybe They Weren’t So Wild to Begin With
In a famous experiment, scientists bred Russian foxes without a fear of people. But the foxes’ ancestry raises new questions about when they became tame and what counts as domestication.
Blind Student’s Violent Treatment at Oxford Debate Prompts Resignations
Ebenezer Azamati, a postgraduate student from Ghana, was violently removed from an event at the Oxford Union, a prominent British debating society.
Oxford Professor Is Accused of Selling Ancient Texts to Hobby Lobby
An investigation found that Bible fragments in a museum started by the owners of the arts-and-crafts chain had been illegally taken from the university.