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Hair is one of the defining features of mammals, setting us apart from birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, yet the...

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Lung cancer remains one of the most formidable challenges in modern oncology, and a new study from researchers at the...

Most children with autism spectrum disorder experience emotional and behavioral difficulties, but a new study suggests that the family environment...

A new diagnostic tool promises to sharpen the way scientists track two closely related blood parasites of wild canids. Researchers...

Large bone defects are among the most stubborn challenges in orthopaedic medicine. When trauma, tumor resection, infection, or repeated surgical...

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When South Korea added the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, known as PCV13, to its national childhood immunization program in 2014,...

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For more than 70 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people in India, access to everyday information often depends on whether someone...

A humble resin oozing from the twisted trunks of the mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus, has long been prized across the...

In the early hours of 6 February 2023, a sequence of powerful earthquakes struck southern Türkiye, killing tens of thousands...

Breast cancer continues to claim more lives than any other malignancy affecting women worldwide, and the search for earlier, more...

A team of computer scientists has built an artificial intelligence system that can look at a photograph of a living...

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When patients are diagnosed with lymphoma or leukemia, much of the conversation understandably centers on curing or controlling the cancer...

For older adults, an ERCP procedure is a double challenge: the endoscopic intervention itself, and the deep sedation required to...

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Few families of birds are as familiar to people across the Western Hemisphere as the New World blackbirds. From the...