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Doctors may one day be able to model the cell-level effects of exposure to traffic-related air pollution using telomere length in our cells. […]
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If elementary students get good vision screenings, some research suggests they may experience better academic outcomes. […]
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Evidence is overwhelming that teens need to sleep to a comfortable time, which makes starting high school before 8:30 problematic. […]
CRISPR may allow researchers to deactivate a master switch gene in DNA to prevent the worsening of a blindness-causing condition […]
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Pollution, resulting in high nitrogen levels in the Chesapeake Bay estuary in Maryland, did not start building after World War II but about a hundred years earlier. […]
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The world’s beauty is joined by extraterrestrial beauty, and since Jupiter is now closer to Earth than it has been in a year, NASA took some pics. […]
Starfish feed on coral & can wipe out big sections of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. But scientists are figuring out ways to solve that. […]
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We know a little more about how scavengers cache their food supply in the Utah desert, thanks to some biologists at the University of Utah. […]
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The hippocampus has long been known to be associated in the brain with our sense of direction or mapping the environments we navigate. […]
We wonder, along with many people, why the president seeks to cut funding for basic scientific research in favor of the military. […]