Hacking the human body is all the rage these days. A few years back, scientists made waves by developing a technique …

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Before any medication, vaccine, or other drug therapy reaches human use, it goes through extensive testing in the …

Claire Maldarelli at 11:03 AM Oct 23 2017

Earlier this year, the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations

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We all hear about how bad red meat is for both the planet’s health and our own. Planet-wise, there’s no argument: …

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  This might sound like sacrilege, but it’s not hard to understand why over half of all people in the U.S. …

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Most of the damage caused by a hurricane is obvious—roofs ripped off buildings, homes flooded, downed …

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