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For ten years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been identified as ...

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In the Amazon forest, human disturbances are now changing which trees grow, how they work, and how deep their evolutionary roots run.