What’s up with Ticks? Ticks transmit more than 10 different human diseases. The most common is Lyme disease. It’s estimated that bites mostly from the blacklegged or deer tick cause […]
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Necrotizing Fasciitis or, as it is more commonly known, flesh-eating disease is a rare but deadly infection of the skin and soft tissues. It infects around 200,000 people a year […]
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Climate and weather seem like they’re two words for the same thing, but they actually have two different meanings. The word weather refers to the air at a specific spot on […]
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It’s 9am and I’m freaking out. 45 minutes. I have 45 minutes before the stage that I’m staring at is all mine. 45 minutes before I tell a room full of […]
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In 2016, an estimated 595,690 people died from cancer in the United States. That’s a little less than the population of Boston. New advancements in treatment have lowered the cancer […]
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The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Dr. Michael Young, Dr. Jeffrey Hall, and Dr. Michael Rosbash for the discovery of the molecular mechanisms controlling circadian […]
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Have you ever seen ants walking in a line and wondered how they do it? Scientists have known for a long time that ants use secreted chemicals called pheromones to […]
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Whenever I go to the beach I have to slather on the sunblock and hide under an umbrella, and even then I still sometimes get burnt. UV exposure is the […]
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Each cell in the human body has 2 meters of DNA. 2 meters is a little more than 6 feet 5 inches which is about the height of Michael Jordan. […]
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Plants are weird. Maybe I should be a bit more specific. Plants have weird immune systems. Scientists know a lot about how the plant immune system works, but there is […]
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