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Caltech Laboratory Animals Discover Secret to Life, the Universe, and Everything

Taking the campus completely by surprise, physicists at the California Institute of Technology announced today that a pair of white mice from one of the biology laboratories has discovered the secret to life, the universe, and everything. In a sudden epiphany, they also announced a reorganization of the department’s research groups, with the elimination of the elementary particle physics group as its primary goal…

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