Science
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Joan Dye Gussow, Pioneer of Eating Locally, Is Dead at 96
Joan Dye Gussow, a nutritionist and educator who was often referred to as the matriarch of the “eat locally, think…
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Galápagos Rail seen on island where Charles Darwin discovered it for first time in 200 years
A tiny black bird was spotted on a Galápagos island for the first time in nearly 200 years — when…
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C.D.C. Will Investigate Debunked Link Between Vaccines and Autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to conduct a large-scale study to re-examine whether there is a…
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Science at a crossroads: Dispatches from Friday’s ‘Stand Up for Science’ rallies across the US
Since the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, a number of actions aimed at slashing federal science spending…
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Breakthrough cardiac regeneration research offers hope for the treatment of ischemic heart failure
Researchers in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute…
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Medical AI tools are growing, but are they being tested properly?
Artificial intelligence algorithms are being built into almost all aspects of health care. They’re integrated into breast cancer screenings, clinical…
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Researchers create gel that can self-heal like human skin
We all encounter gels in daily life — from the soft, sticky substances you put in your hair, to the…
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Dolphins and humans team up to catch fish in Brazil
Many hands make light work. Or, in the case of cooperative interspecies foraging in southern Brazil, flippers and hands catch…
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Having sparse links in the hippocampus may maximize memory storage
Our brain’s memory center has a sleek design, new data show. The finding comes from looking at living human hippocampus…
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America’s butterflies are disappearing at ‘catastrophic’ rate
America’s butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down…
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