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Some science seems silly, but it’s still worthwhile

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Carly Anne York is an animal physiologist at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory , N.C. York's new book, The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog , is out now.

The pursuit of immediate applications is not the goal of basic science, York writes.

Research that could be considered silly or useless can lead to scientific advances.

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