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How a new technology is resurrecting patients from what was once certain death.

Halting a MERS pandemic may hold lessons for the Ebola crisis—until the next outbreak.

In the 1920s, two murderers were defended by science. The infamous case still echoes.

The origins of language are not what inherited disorders seemed to suggest.

Competition in Cambrian seas helped cause an explosion in diversity.

Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals.

Knowledge about aliens might be as dangerous as the aliens themselves.

Even with its explanatory power, Big Bang theory takes its place in a long line of myths.

A journey to the underwater volcanoes where life may have erupted.