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A study published in 2025 in the Journal of Economic Entomology showed that bistrifluron, an insect growth regulator that interferes with the formation of a new exoskeleton, can kill western drywood termites with remarkable efficiency.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, told BBC that a "kill switch" that can be checked by a third party may need to be mandatory for the industry.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“If we kill the Golden Goose,” he wrote then, “you will only have yourselves to blame.”

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026

They use their potent venom to kill prey and are not considered dangerous to people because humans don’t look anything like food to them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Nanuq didn’t feel the cold, but that wasn’t what was going to kill him.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Last time a marine heatwave hit South Australia and Tasmania, there were starving penguins, fish kills, suffocating algae outbreaks, and jellyfish invasions.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

"If a power acts like Satan, picks targets like Satan, and kills like Satan, it's Satan," he posted on X.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Cure us before it kills us, I guess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Benesh closed with 14 kills and eight blocks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

I open my eyes and the light nearly kills me.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

During the 1710 siege of Tallinn, for example, the disease killed Swedish and Russian soldiers as well as civilians.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

The crash that killed three people on Tuesday night, including two NBC4 journalists, involved a single-engine AS350 B2 helicopter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Another relative, whose 17-year-old brother was among those who died, said the family had visited him during his detention and questioned how a disease could have killed so many detainees without apparently affecting their guards.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Shifen Fox, whose father was killed during the siege, sets out to rescue its story in “The Battle of Hengyang.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

He brought whatever he killed, and cooked it over a fire in the school yard.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

At the dawn of the internet, a select group of companies made a killing creating the equipment and business model for the system of glass strands bundled in cables, known as a fiber-optic network.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Last week’s calls from inside the house that A.I. companies are at risk of losing control of their monsters and killing everyone—true or not!—have continued to sweep the news.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026

During the past two decades, however, researchers have discovered that apoptotic caspases are not limited to killing cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The court heard that Tajzai, an Afghan asylum seeker, wrongly believed Sherzad belonged to the Taliban, which had kidnapped his father and was suspected of killing him.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Chief Lapu Lapu led a rebellion, ultimately killing Magellan on April 27, 1521.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly