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Research Associate Abby Trammell shows the foot bones of a giant ground sloth at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Ala. The sloth was a female around 9 feet tall when standing on two legs that was found in an Alabama cave. Tribune News Service, Photo Provided

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Playing God: Bringing back extinct animals does more harm than good

By Elisabeth Pointer / May 4, 2026

Scientists should be putting their efforts towards conserving what we already have instead of “de-extincting” long gone species.

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Cultivating curiosity: colleges' effort to create well rounded students

By Elisabeth Pointer / January 24, 2026

The Indiana legislation passed SEA 322 in 2017, which requires every felon arrest to submit a DNA sample to the State Police Laboratory. The DNA samples are sent through a database in the Indiana State Police laboratory in Indianapolis, which helps identify any connections with other samples within the database. TNS PHOTO

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Playing God: we should never take steps to genetically alter human beings

By Elisabeth Pointer / November 27, 2025

Genetically modifying people can have its benefits medically, but that is where it should end.

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