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Susan F. Wood, Who Quit F.D.A. Over Contraception Pill Delay, Dies at 66
Susan F. Wood, a women’s health expert who resigned in protest from the Food and Drug Administration in 2005, accusing…
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3 Queens Zoo birds dead from virus, 12 at Bronx Zoo being tested
Bird flu has hit the zoo. Over a dozen ducks and wild birds at the Queens and Bronx zoos have…
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Astronomers unsure what caused ‘weird explosion’ seen by Einstein Probe’s X-ray eye
Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year. The…
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Readers discuss an unsung scientist, a mutant bacterium named Chonkus, Science News’ new look
Life of the party Margaret S. Collins, the first Black female entomologist in the United States to earn a Ph.D.,…
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Clot-busting meds may be effective up to 24 hours after initial stroke symptoms
The clot-dissolving medication, alteplase, improved stroke patients’ recovery by more than 50% when given up to 24 hours after the…
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Potential new pathway to fight viruses
Five years removed from the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists around the world are still studying its effects and, more importantly, ways…
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Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in…
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Eyelashes help fling water from our eyes
array: A broad and organized group of objects. Sometimes they are instruments placed in a systematic fashion to collect information…
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2nd form of bird flu detected in US cows
A second type of bird flu has been detected among dairy cows in the United States, the U.S. Department of…
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Ice streams move due to tiny ice quakes
The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice…
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