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Long covid symptoms may include hair loss and ejaculation difficulties
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New York Polio Case Revives Questions About Live Oral Vaccine
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Designer Crops of the Future Must Be Better Tailored for Women in Agriculture
For all the progress that scientists have made in breeding crops that feed more people, these breakthroughs typically elude a...
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Exploration Is Fundamental to Human Success
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Colorado potato beetles lose almost all the mitochondria in their muscles during hibernation, but regrow them in time to start...
How Do You Know a Cargo Ship Is Polluting? It Makes Clouds
If you have a habit of perusing satellite imagery of the world’s oceans—and who doesn’t, really?—you might get lucky and...
High-Tech Seafloor Mapping Is Finding Surprising Structures Everywhere
REEF TOWERSOUTH PACIFIC, 50 MILES EAST OF CAPE YORK PENINSULA, AUSTRALIA Scientists at James Cook University in Australia were charting...
Can Ring Vaccination Contain Monkeypox in the US?
Ring vaccination worked for smallpox because a person-to-person pattern of spread makes it possible to predict and interrupt chains of...
Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth
“Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life, and...
How Florence Nightingale Changed Data Visualization Forever
In the summer of 1856 Florence Nightingale sailed home from war furious. As the nursing administrator of a sprawling British...
The Mystery of Milky Seas Is Finally Being Solved
On January 30, 1864, the Confederate warship CSS Alabama entered what its captain described as a “remarkable patch of the...
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River
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