For instance, each whale or dolphin has on average 14 different scientific names.

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Lots of big scientific names are working in synthetic biology, which so far has produced lots of hype and headlines but few practical breakthroughs.

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The tortoise spat is one of about 60 cases presented each year to the ICZN, a little-known group that functions as the world's arbiter for animals' scientific names.

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The panel who will judge the finals include Nobel laureates, tech visionaries and household names in scientific research.

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The world's roughly 1.4 million known animal species typically go by two or more names in scientific literature a source of confusion to many.

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Individual physicians make names for themselves by analyzing medicines and writing scientific papers.

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The very names of these products, energetic and pseudo-scientific, implied that the limits of knowledge had been searched.

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The names Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma will never grace a hurricane again, according to a committee of the World Meteorological Organization, which retires storm names out of sensitivity to the victims, and for historical, scientific and legal purposes as well.

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