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New coronavirus emerges Public health officials are wary as news of a new type of coronavirus emerges. The discovery of the virus was announced on Sept. 15 by Ali Mohamed Zaki of the Dr. Soliman...

Marijuana as a cancer therapeutic? This has got to be a scam, right? Well, before we make any hasty decisions and throw the marijuana out with the bath salts, let us consider what is...

Since school is in full swing, any tools to make your life easier and more purposive as a student are invaluable. We’ve compiled a shortlist of programs and apps that might make the back-to-school...

New study able to identify genes involved in Face shape A new study, published by Plos Genetics, has shined a light on the genes that shape the human face. Using techniques of 3D magnetic resonance...

Vaccination is really important. That may seem to you like an unusually benign assertion – not because it’s false, but because it’s so trivially and obviously true that it shouldn’t need to be said. If...

The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a report on the research misconduct of discredited Harvard scientist Marc Hauser. Focusing on research projects supported by...

A recent study from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Stockholm University, and University College London has shined some light on the relationship between socioeconomic position and fertility rates. Published in the...