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"Scientifically, I don't know if I can talk about 'friendship'," explained lead researcher Victoire Martignac, a PhD researcher form the University of Zurich.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025

Scientifically determining the ages of olive trees is challenging, said J. Julio Camarero, a dendrochronologist at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology in Zaragoza, Spain, who led the study of the Bshaaleh trees.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2024

Scientifically named Teredinids, these creatures have no shell, but are classed as bivalve shellfish and related to oysters and mussels.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2023

Scientifically known as Amanita phalloides, death caps are responsible for 90 percent of the mushroom-related fatalities that occur every year, making them the world’s most lethal mushroom.

From National Geographic • Aug. 31, 2023

"Scientifically, it’s clearly more or less complete nonsense," Columbia University physicist Peter Woit told the New York Times, "but these days that doesn’t much distinguish it from a lot of the rest of the literature."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson