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After Children Began Getting Sick by the Dozens, Parents Took a Hard Look at Their Town’s Toxic Legacy

Half of H.I.V. Patients Are Women, Most Research Subjects Are Men

Could a Single Live Vaccine Protect against a Multitude of Diseases?

Finding Common Ground Can Reduce Parents’ Hesitation About Vaccines

For Those With One Disorder, What’s the Risk of Another?

Searching in Vein: A History of Artificial Blood

It’s 2019. Academic Papers Should Be Free.

The Quest for the Most Elusive Material in Physics

Most Microbial Species Are “Dark Matter”

Violent Drug Cartels Stifle Mexican Science

How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution

Guam’s ecological fate is in the hands of the U.S. military

The Mass Extinction Detectives: No One Knows How the Dinosaurs Rose to Dominate the Planet, but the Answers May Lie Within a Mysterious Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Their Competition

Screened at Birth: The science of newborn gene sequencing

Mosquito-trapping balloons could help us understand one of the world’s deadliest diseases

Scientists Set Up a Haunted Lab to Figure Out Why We Like Being Scared

In India, Breast Cancer Screening Goes High-Tech

How to Stop Poaching and Protect Endangered Species? Forget the ‘Kingpins’

From Fish to Humans, A Microplastic Invasion May Be Taking a Toll

Fast-Tracking Drug Approvals at the FDA

¿Comó se llama? How Birds Get Their Spanish Names

Think 2018 Will Be the Hottest Year on Record? I’ll Bet $78.46 You’re Wrong

Sticky Business: Will Taxes on Sugary Sodas Help to Dilute America’s Cardiometabolic Crisis?

Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn