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Ponder the louse. Consider its plural, lice. Try now not to scratch the multiple itches that have just populated your head at the very thought of these near-microscopic insects crawling around in that forest of hair follicles, laying eggs, sucking blood, and generally creeping you out...
From time to time those of us with kids (excluding me) have to deal with them being sick. One of the first things that a parent with a sick kid does is strap their child into their car seat and take them on down to go see the pediatrician...
175 years and a few months ago a landing party rowed into this little bay. Their ship, a small, storm-weathered British sloop was anchored in the distance.
Almost exactly 13 years ago, Andrew Wakefield addressed a group of reporters in a conference room at London's Royal Free Hospital to discuss a 12-child case study he and some colleagues had written up positing a theoretical connection between the measles-mumps-rubella virus and gut disorders and then between those gut disorders and autism...
These days, science funding is like a cage fight—utterly brutal. It’s even harder to compete for funding when you work on microscopic nematode worms that live at the bottom of the ocean...
Sometimes the diagnosis of kidney failure particularly shocks patients and their loved ones. "But, doctor," they ask, "how can that be?
Over 1.5 million new cancer cases were identified in the United States in 2010, and despite continued advances in cancer treatment, approximately 500,000 cancer-related deaths occurred in the same year (1)...
Tamara Krinsky is reporting on the science-oriented films and conversations from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. This is her first report for Scientific American .
A number of wonderful books decry the public’s seemingly irrational perceptions of risk. Seth Mnookin's The Panic Virus is the latest, and builds on Michael Specter's Denialism and Chris Mooney's Unscientific America ...
The Lomaki Pueblo ruin [l eft ] , located in the Wupatki National Monument near Flagstaff, Ariz., was a small Anasazi village that housed one to three families, similar to the small villages in nearby Long House Valley...
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