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/ 3 weeks agoWhy are so many young people getting cancer?
Diagnoses for several cancers before age 50 have been increasing rapidly since the 1990s. Scientists don’t know why, but they have...
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Saving reproductive tissue from kids treated for cancer before adolescence could give them a chance at having biological children later in...
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/ 4 weeks agoCOVID-19 is still a threat, but getting a vaccine is harder for many people
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ADHD is officially a disorder of deficits in attention, behavior and focus. But patients point out upsides, like curiosity. Research is...
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/ 4 weeks agoA new book explores the link between film giant Kodak and the atomic bomb
In Tales of Militant Chemistry, Alice Lovejoy traces how film giants Kodak and Agfa helped produce weapons of war during the...
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/ 4 weeks agoThe oldest known mummies have been found — in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian groups mummified bodies over smoky fires before burying them as early as 12,000 years ago, long before Egyptians began...
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Experiments reveal that when slabs of salty ice are strained, electricity is generated, though practical uses are still a long way...
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/ 4 weeks agoHow a Harvard maverick forever changed our concept of the stars
At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly...