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Nigerian virologist Margaret Oluwatoyin Japhet has designed a rapid test that could diagnose rotavirus at a child’s bedside.

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Racism that fueled the syphilis study still permeates the U.S. health care system, causing disparities in access to medical ...

Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has ...

Most scientific fields have been made over with a revolutionary theory at least once in recent centuries. Such makeovers, or paradigm shifts, reorder old knowledge into a new framework. Revolutionary ...

To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any ...

Several studies have served up tantalizing hints about the drugs’ potential cancer prevention benefits, but other results ...

Finds at sites in Spain and France suggest that Neandertals used the teeth of ancient rhinos for heavy-duty fabrication.

Sara Novak reports for SN on how Hawaii is literally paving the path to a circular economy. Hawaii’s leadership in ...