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The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure. Now it’s being dismantled. By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington For more than a ...

Primatologist Birutė Galdikas died on March 24, 2026, and an era of science that began in the forests of Tanzania, Rwanda and Borneo studying humanity's closest living relatives more than half a ...