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D ormant cancer cells in the lung could be reactivated after a bout of COVID-19 or flu, according to new research. The ...

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“Every species on the planet self-medicates in some way or another,” Michael Huffman, a primatologist now at the Institute of ...

The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole in the Caribbean Sea, some 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the coast of Belize. With a diameter of 318 meters (1,043 feet) and a depth of 124 meters (407 ...

A single injection at birth could offer years of protection against the virus for vulnerable children in high-risk areas.

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This is the reason why we can’t see what happened at the very beginning of the universe. There is no free path for light to get from the Big Bang to our telescopes. We simply cannot see beyond the ...

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A first-of-its-kind implant has just been granted approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment ...

This can cause geomagnetic disturbances on the ground at those high latitudes. They also report the fact that it can cause ...

Rhino Horns Go Radioactive As Anti-Poaching Project Gets Off The Ground It’s harmless to the rhinos – but it’ll hopefully put a pin in the poachers' plans.