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Inside the Medical Challenges of Presidential Health...

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2025/10/10

A former White House physician reveals the medical realities of caring for the president of the U.S.

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RFK, Jr., Cites ‘Truly Appalling’ Studies to Tie...

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2025/10/09

Studies suggesting circumcision rates are linked with autism are “riddled with flaws”

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Birds Went Silent during the Great North American...

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2025/10/09

The “Great North American Eclipse” of April 2024 was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study how birds and other wildlife respond to total solar eclipses

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This Bat Recorded Itself Catching and Eating a...

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2025/10/09

Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it

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Record-Breaking Everest Blizzard Explained

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2025/10/09

A blizzard that trapped hundreds of trekkers on Mount Everest was truly “off the charts,” experts explain

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How Bacteria Use CRISPR to Vaccinate against Viruses

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2025/10/09

New research shows how microbes use napping viruses to vaccinate themselves

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AI Can Predict Cat Health From Litter Box Visits

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2025/10/09

Cat bathroom data from an AI-powered litter box could offer useful pet health insights

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The Confusion Over Antidepressants During Pregnancy...

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2025/10/08

By casting doubt on antidepressants and other well-studied drugs, our government health agencies are choosing minimal risk to a fetus over the major risk to the person carrying it

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New Study Finds Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People...

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2025/10/08

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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This Year’s Nobel Physics Prize Showed Quantum...

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2025/10/08

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum computing

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Will AI Ever Win a Nobel Prize?

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2025/10/08

Some researchers think artificial intelligence could produce Nobel-worthy research, but others question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable

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After 30 Years of Discovery, These Are Astronomers’...

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2025/10/08

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits

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Why Scammers Target Seniors—And What You Can Do About It

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2025/10/08

Millions of older adults lose their savings to scams every year. There are ways to reduce the risk

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2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That...

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2025/10/08

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and possibly deliver drugs to specific areas of the body

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AI Scans Tongue Color to Predict Diseases

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2025/10/08

Inspired by principles from traditional Chinese medicine, researchers used AI to analyze tongue color as a diagnostic tool—with more than 96 percent accuracy

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Explores Cold War...

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2025/10/08

Astronaut-turned-author Chris Hadfield discusses his new thriller Final Orbit, which weaves real cold war history, space race geopolitics and firsthand experience into a gripping work of fiction.

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Supreme Court Weighs Colorado’s Ban on Scientifically...

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2025/10/07

The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, an ineffective and often harmful practice targeting LGBTQ+ youth, violates a therapist’s right to free speech

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Babies’ Brains Recognize Foreign Languages They Heard...

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2025/10/07

Babies process foreign languages they heard in utero much like their mother tongue, researchers find

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First-of-Its-Kind Kidney Transplant Could Lead to...

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2025/10/07

A man diagnosed with brain death received a kidney that was modified to be type O, which is compatible with all blood types

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2025 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Researchers Who...

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2025/10/07

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre microscopic quantum effects can infiltrate our large-scale, everyday world

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