kill
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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
The researcher, Jacob Coxon, said in a social media post: “People building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“The sword is trying to kill me now.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
A chemical that kills immediately could eliminate exposed termites before they have much opportunity to interact with nestmates.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Stanford-bound beach player Katelyn Oerlemans had 17 kills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
How that had lost against what type of soap kills the most germs, I’ll never understand.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
One man was killed and two people were hospitalized after their fishing boat struck rocks and capsized beneath the Golden Gate Bridge on Thursday, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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
His son, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was killed in Pakistan in 2002.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Visiting the amphitheater where he was nearly killed, he says he has achieved something like closure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The scouts set out to deliver the message, paddling fifteen hours through choppy waters patrolled by the Japanese military, knowing they’d be killed if caught helping Americans.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
After an Army helicopter and passenger jet collided last year over Washington, killing dozens, air-traffic controllers have directed pilots to make more space for commercial airlines heading toward airports like LaGuardia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“My feet are killing me. I hate these boots. They smell disgusting, and they’re too small. I’ll have blisters the size of oranges once this is over.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
