Health
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What Can Night-Shift Workers Do to Feel Better?
One question for Sarah Chellappa, a neuroscientist at the University of Cologne.
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Targeting Cancer’s Achilles Heel
Biden’s Cancer Moonshot aims to cut annual deaths in half. Scientists have the goal in their sights.
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Cancer’s Got a Lot of Nerve
Tumors recruit the nervous system to help them spread. Scientists are looking for ways to stop it.
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Why Do the Omicron Variants Spread So Easily?
One question for Abdullah Syed, a postdoctoral researcher at the Gladstone Institutes.
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You Eat a Credit Card’s Worth of Plastic Every Week
What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?
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Cancer Shouldn’t Pose a Threat to Our Lives. We Should Find It First
Identifying the “first cell” could revolutionize the way we treat cancer.
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Can Cancer Be Treated by Changing Its Cells?
Tumors grow when cells lose their biological identity. A promising therapeutic might restore their sense of self.
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Painkillers That Don’t Kill
Scientists are getting closer to designing safer, more targeted pain drugs to replace opioids.
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This Is Some Good Shit
How the sewage plant in our nation’s capital spins human poop into fertilizer gold.
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This Is Some Good Shit
How the sewage plant in our nation’s capital spins human poop into fertilizer gold.