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The Orionid meteor shower, a result of Halley's comet passing by, will be at its peak this week. The shower is active from September 26 to November 22, with the peak expected early on...

California's Inland Empire is a vast area east of Los Angeles, facing challenges due to limited resources, low incomes, and education levels. The region also lacks adequate healthcare providers to meet the needs of...

The journey towards health equity is a continuous one, filled with challenges and triumphs. As highlighted by health experts in a recent editorial report, there are many reasons to be hopeful about the future...

Every week, Kiden Josephine Francis Laja, a community health worker in South Sudan, embarks on a journey to educate her community about vaccines and provide immunizations to children. She travels far on her bicycle,...

Tensions in the Middle East have been escalating, with President Joe Biden focusing on ending the war in Gaza and bringing peace to the region before the end of his term. However, his decision...

Scholars have debated for years whether language is a prerequisite for thinking. Bertrand Russell believed that language is necessary for thoughts that could not exist otherwise. However, observations in the animal kingdom show that...

The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, was a wolf-like marsupial that roamed the forests of Tasmania. Unfortunately, the last known Tasmanian tiger died in a Hobart zoo in 1936 after being hunted...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed the most complete Tasmanian tiger genome from a 110-year-old pickled head, offering hope for the potential resurrection of the extinct species. This groundbreaking achievement, led by Colossal Biosciences, involved analyzing...

On a cold winter evening five years ago, a young woman with a newborn baby arrived at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center in rural Minnesota. She had not received any prenatal care and was now...

Melanie Hoenig, a kidney specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, was teaching first-year medical students how to estimate kidney function when a student raised a question about the diagnostic algorithm that...