Vaccine skepticism, and the broader medical mistrust and far-reaching anxieties it reflects, is not just a fringe position…
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Trees – and all plants – harvest sunlight to gain the energy they need to live and grow.
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When faced with a threat, T cells have the decision-making flexibility to both clear out the pathogen now and ready themselves…
Because hammerhead sharks give birth to live young, studying their embryonic development is much more complicated than harvesting…
Militaries around the world are rapidly developing science fiction-like laser weapons, motivated in part by the growing…
Some of these giant vegetarians were as tall as a 3-story building. Microscopic analysis of their teeth, bones and eggshells…
Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are worried about biased AI and the need to perform the ‘right’ expressions…
Electric vehicles are catching on across the US, but they’re also catching on fire in colder regions like the Northeast…
Early modern societies in Latin America and Spain saw a convergence of traditional medical knowledge and the professionalization…
Not much is known about the predator fly Laphria saffrana. New research identified how they count the wingbeats of their…
A queen’s main job in the hive is to lay eggs and pass genes on to offspring. But many bee species do just fine without…
The dangers posed by the largely unregulated commercial data market prompted the Biden administration to try to prevent…
The average might come in handy for certain data analyses, but is any one person really ‘average’?
In medieval Japan, healing might mean taking medicine, undergoing an exorcism or sidestepping harm in the first place by…
A pediatrician and preventive medicine physician explains how measles vaccines became victims of their own success and the…
IVF is a decades-old procedure that has allowed increasing numbers of prospective parents to have children. Evolving legislation…
Enthusiasm for the capabilities of artificial intelligence – and claims for the approach of humanlike prowess –has followed…
The people manning the guns are also at risk of injury from the force of the weapon.