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The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is ending support for research using human fetal tissue. Agency chief Jay ...

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The U.S. health secretary told USA Today that he believed the flu jab was a “potential culprit that I cannot rule out” for ...

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A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus ...

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By mapping areas where seismometers in southern California detected sonic booms, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and ...

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A new estimate suggests land sources eject 600 quadrillion pieces of microplastic into the atmosphere every year ...