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Now’s the time to get your kids the flu vaccine
Health

Now’s the time to get your kids the flu vaccine

By Sara Chodosh

Adult mouse with two mothers
Health

Scientists just created healthy mice with same-sex parents

By Kat Eschner

Gene editing can’t help human fetuses yet, but it just made a big leap in mice
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Gene editing can’t help human fetuses yet, but it just made a big leap in mice

By Kat Eschner

A century ago the Spanish flu killed 50 million—and then we forgot about it
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A century ago the Spanish flu killed 50 million—and then we forgot about it

By Eleanor Cummins

Gene editing could turn this wild orphan fruit into your new favorite berry
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Gene editing could turn this wild orphan fruit into your new favorite berry

By Neel V. Patel

Many folks with appendicitis could skip surgery
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Many folks with appendicitis could skip surgery

By Neel V. Patel

How studying chicken butts cracked the inner workings of our immune system
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How studying chicken butts cracked the inner workings of our immune system

By Charlie Wood

Sweltering heat is exactly the right weather to get your flu shot
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Sweltering heat is exactly the right weather to get your flu shot

By Sara Chodosh

The weirdest things we learned this week: baby skeleton art, zombie presidents, and solar-powered telegraphs
Science

The weirdest things we learned this week: baby skeleton art, zombie presidents, and solar-powered telegraphs

By Rachel Feltman

AI could make MRI scans as much as 10 times faster
Technology

AI could make MRI scans as much as 10 times faster

By Rob Verger

Measles cases aren’t spiking, despite talk of an outbreak
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Measles cases aren’t spiking, despite talk of an outbreak

By Sara Chodosh

Scientists are putting the X factor back in X-rays
Technology

Scientists are putting the X factor back in X-rays

By Eleanor Cummins

CRISPR
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Americans have some really mixed feelings about editing human embryos

By Claire Maldarelli

beer lager pour
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The weirdest things we learned this week: Curing syphilis with malaria, ejecting bears from planes, and discovering new beer yeasts

By Rachel Feltman

A female Ebola survivor infected her family more than a year after she had the illness
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A female Ebola survivor infected her family more than a year after she had the illness

By Neel V. Patel

Beauty vitamins promise shinier hair, stronger nails, and suppler skin, but do they work?
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Beauty vitamins promise shinier hair, stronger nails, and suppler skin, but do they work?

By Julissa Treviño

CRISPR could use gold nanoparticles to edit your brain
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CRISPR could use gold nanoparticles to edit your brain

By Kat Eschner

implantation
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How to relocate a uterus

By Claire Maldarelli

There’s finally a drug that prevents migraines instead of just treating them
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There’s finally a drug that prevents migraines instead of just treating them

By Claire Maldarelli

Mosquito spit primes your body for disease—so scientists want to make an anti-saliva vaccine
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Mosquito spit primes your body for disease—so scientists want to make an anti-saliva vaccine

By Kate Baggaley

How to safely dispose of your old medications
Health

How to safely dispose of your old medications

By Sara Chodosh

Homeopathic and natural remedies aren’t the same thing—and only one of them is total nonsense
Health

Homeopathic and natural remedies aren’t the same thing—and only one of them is total nonsense

By Sara Chodosh

My ancestor died of a splinter. Wait, what?
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My ancestor died of a splinter. Wait, what?

By Eleanor Cummins

Many heavy pot users suffer severe nausea—and they’ve all landed on the same weird solution
Health

Many heavy pot users suffer severe nausea—and they’ve all landed on the same weird solution

By Neel V. Patel

Some of your favorite products have absurd medicinal histories
Health

Some of your favorite products have absurd medicinal histories

By Eleanor Cummins

Most teens still visit pediatricians—but they deserve doctors trained to treat them
Health

Most teens still visit pediatricians—but they deserve doctors trained to treat them

By Eleanor Cummins

Whatever the latest infectious disease outbreak is, explained. (This time, it’s mumps.)
Health

Whatever the latest infectious disease outbreak is, explained. (This time, it’s mumps.)

By Sara Chodosh

IBM wants to replace antibiotics with these big ol’ synthetic molecules
Health

IBM wants to replace antibiotics with these big ol’ synthetic molecules

By Claire Maldarelli

Influenza B is trying to escape our vaccine
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Influenza B is trying to escape our vaccine

By Sara Chodosh

Five new science books you should read this month
Science

Five new science books you should read this month

By Mary Beth Griggs

Your skin is crawling with bacteria, and some of them might help fight cancer
Health

Your skin is crawling with bacteria, and some of them might help fight cancer

By Claire Maldarelli

An exhaustive account of how the flu destroys your body
Health

An exhaustive account of how the flu destroys your body

By Claire Maldarelli

Thanks, anti-vaxxers: Measles is on the rise in Europe
Health

Thanks, anti-vaxxers: Measles is on the rise in Europe

By Sara Chodosh

This year’s flu vaccine is only 36 percent effective—and that’s great news
Health

This year’s flu vaccine is only 36 percent effective—and that’s great news

By Sara Chodosh

Still need a flu shot? Here’s how to find one near you.
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Still need a flu shot? Here’s how to find one near you.

By Sara Chodosh

kid on fence
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This flu season has killed 53 kids so far. Here’s what worried parents should do.

By Sara Chodosh

Should I get a flu shot? Is it too late to get a flu shot?
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Should I get a flu shot? Is it too late to get a flu shot?

By Joe Brown

hospital patient gown
Health

How bad this flu season really is—and what you should do about it

By Sara Chodosh

11 gifts for 7 types of science enthusiast
Gear

11 gifts for 7 types of science enthusiast

By Sophie Bushwick

Here are the cold and flu remedies that actually work
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Here are the cold and flu remedies that actually work

By Rachel Feltman

vaccine vials
Health

People with egg allergies don’t actually need a special flu shot

By Sara Chodosh

New trials show cancer immunotherapy can be incredibly effective—and incredibly dangerous
Health

New trials show cancer immunotherapy can be incredibly effective—and incredibly dangerous

By Claire Maldarelli

woman blowing her nose
Health

We’re missing out on a better way to make flu vaccines

By Sara Chodosh

This year’s flu season looks like a bad one—and it could be coming early
Health

This year’s flu season looks like a bad one—and it could be coming early

By Sara Chodosh

Can we make a flu vaccine that lasts for life?
Health

Can we make a flu vaccine that lasts for life?

By Kate Baggaley

the face of a woman wrapped up in bandages
Health

No, there has not been a successful human head transplant

By Rachel Feltman

a little girl with a bandaid on her arm
Health

Why does my arm hurt the day after I get my flu shot?

By Sara Chodosh

Gene therapy just saved a young boy’s life—by giving him new skin
Health

Gene therapy just saved a young boy’s life—by giving him new skin

By Claire Maldarelli

This is Pepin, a dog on a mission in the Serengeti.
Environment

Five animals that do our dirty work for us

By Ellen Airhart

The secrets of gecko tails could help heal human spine injuries
Health

The secrets of gecko tails could help heal human spine injuries

By Claire Maldarelli

The first genetically engineered humans might not have their DNA tweaked at all
Health

The first genetically engineered humans might not have their DNA tweaked at all

By Claire Maldarelli

Why are we so bad at producing the right flu vaccines?
Health

Why are we so bad at producing the right flu vaccines?

By Sara Chodosh

California’s hepatitis A outbreak shows why people need easy access to health care
Health

California’s hepatitis A outbreak shows why people need easy access to health care

By Sara Chodosh

smallpox vaccines
Health

The first smallpox vaccine changed the world—but we’re still not sure what was in it

By Sara Chodosh

You should get the flu shot—even if it won’t keep you from getting sick
Health

You should get the flu shot—even if it won’t keep you from getting sick

By Sara Chodosh

Is living forever going to suck?
Health

Is living forever going to suck?

By Alexandra Ossola

There is no evidence that flu vaccines cause miscarriages
Health

There is no evidence that flu vaccines cause miscarriages

By Sara Chodosh

Scientists want to turn our gut bacteria into medicine
Health

Scientists want to turn our gut bacteria into medicine

By Claire Maldarelli

The FDA says ecstasy is a ‘breakthrough’ drug for PTSD patients
Health

The FDA says ecstasy is a ‘breakthrough’ drug for PTSD patients

By Sara Chodosh

U.S. researchers have used gene editing to combat heart disease in human embryos
Health

U.S. researchers have used gene editing to combat heart disease in human embryos

By Claire Maldarelli

Scientists are trying to treat autoimmune disease with intestinal worms
Environment

Scientists are trying to treat autoimmune disease with intestinal worms

By Kate Baggaley

It looks like we’re one step closer to creating genetically modified humans in a lab
Health

It looks like we’re one step closer to creating genetically modified humans in a lab

By Sara Chodosh

You may not need to finish your antibiotics (but you probably still should)
Health

You may not need to finish your antibiotics (but you probably still should)

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Why doctors are still studying JFK’s chronic back pain
Health

Why doctors are still studying JFK’s chronic back pain

By Kate Baggaley

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