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Europe will be spared the worst economic impacts of climate change by a slowing down of the Gulf Stream, new...

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Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Many policies — from medicine to terrorism — depend on how the general public accepts and...

In 1963, Irish surgeon Denis Parson Burkitt airmailed samples of an unusual jaw tumor found in Ugandan children to his...

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The most dramatic divergence between humans and other primates can be found in the brain, the primary organ that gives...

An estimated 95% of hospitals in the United States use electronic medical records (EMR) to manage and report on patient...

A biomedical engineer from the University of Houston will use a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health...

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MISSOULA, Montana – Gravel-bed river floodplains are some of the most ecologically important habitats in North America, according to a...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 17, 2018 – Guang Yue, PhD, director of Human Performance and Engineering...

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