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Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom ...

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RFK, Jr., and other potential and current government officials have spread shaky health claims about fluoridated water.

From “ouch” to “aïe” to “yakayi,” languages across the world exclaim pain using similar-sounding words, hinting at a common ...

Once a tragic example of degraded wildlife habitat, the Klamath River’s dam removal demonstrates how people can halt the ...

We are the products of progressive stages of evolution. With this in mind, the Drake equation can be cast as: In that ...

The science of health begins with moving the body. There’s no need to fixate on taking 10,000 steps a day (an idea that came ...

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Scientists are piecing together the brain processes that underlie the wide-eyed wanting-to-know we generally think of as ...