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The Wellcome Photography Prize awards photographers who show how science affects human health around the world.

A short interaction with a chatbot can meaningfully shift a voter’s opinion about a presidential candidate or proposed policy in either direction, new Cornell University research finds.

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To save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, one plan suggests killing thousands of barred owls. Conservationists and ...

ACIP has drifted toward inflating speculative risks while downplaying well-established vaccine benefits,” write former CDC ...

The belief that children cannot feel pain lasted well into the 1980s. It was common for them to undergo surgery while ...

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