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The internet is an essential part of modern life, and dependence on online services accelerated throughout the past two years as millions of people worked, shopped and interacted with others remotely…
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Carlos Peredo, a paleontologist and early career scientist, had been looking forward to the opportunities that his new, two-year NSF postdoctoral fellowship would provide him with at the University of…