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Nematodes weren’t known to live in the Great Salt Lake until recently. And, in fact, very little lives there — because the lake’s salinity makes most life untenable. But as it turns out, these tiny worms were doing just fine.
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When humans debate climate policy, the questions asked are often posed in terms of what will work best. Fairness isn’t always, or even often, taken into account. Stacia Ryder thinks that needs to change.
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Ultra-processed food and the companies that produce them contribute to the epidemic in diabetes, cancer, dementia, and other chronic disease. Is it time to regulate these products like tobacco?
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Memory is not a rigid, static picture of what came before. Rather, it’s a nebulous, ever-changing conceptualization of who we were, what we believed, what happened to us, and what was happening around us.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder exists on a continuum of behaviors, capabilities, and deviations from norms — and for a very long time, that spectrum didn't include much space for girls.
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Almost all large organizations — from government entities to universities to private businesses — engage in sexual harassment prevention training. And yet the problem persists.
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The recent disaster in Maui was the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, and it has highlighted a gaping hole in the country's disaster response.
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Consider for a moment what our world would look like without seeds.
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There are no openly gay players in any of the five major men's sports leagues in the United States. But that's not because there are no gay players in those leagues.
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Personalized medicine sounds like a good idea. But what sounds like a good idea in theory might not be working in practice.