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Dr. Caroline Driscoll-Braden (University of Louisville) discusses the evolution of empathy in animals. Do rats of one strain care about rats of a different strain? Then, Dr. Dave Robinson (Bellarmine University) provides an update on Mpox (formerly known as Monkeypox). Is Mpox resurging in Chicago? And Professor Scott Miller tells us about the planets, stars, meteor showers, and constellations we can see in the night sky during the month of July. In what part of the sky is our galaxy's black hole?

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