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Dr. Susan Love, Surgeon and Breast Health Advocate, Dies at 75

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Dr. Love is survived by her wife, Dr. Helen Sperry Cooksey, a surgeon, whom she married in San Francisco in 2004 during...
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A New Kind of Disaster Aid: Pay People Cash, Before Disaster Strikes

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Disasters can push the world’s poorest deeper into poverty. Now aid agencies are trying something new. They’re giving small bits of cash to...
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A Blood Test Predicts Pre-eclampsia in Pregnant Women

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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a blood test that can identify pregnant women who are at imminent risk of developing a...
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Frank Field, Who Brought Expertise to TV Weathercasting, Dies at 100

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Frank Field, who as a meteorologist brought a groundbreaking credential to his job as a television weather forecaster in New York, and who...
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A Climate Laggard in America’s Industrial Heartland Has a Plan to Change, Fast

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From toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes to sewage pouring into Detroit basements to choking wildfire smoke that drifted south from Canada,...
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How to Watch SpaceX Launch the Euclid Mission to Study the Dark Universe

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The European Space Agency’s Euclid spacecraft is set to sail into its mission to chart the history of the universe as far back...
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When Is a Cannibal Not a Cannibal?

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Everybody’s quick to see a cannibal. The Romans thought the ancient Britons feasted on human flesh, and the British thought the same about...
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2 Leading Theories of Consciousness Square Off

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On a muggy June night in Greenwich Village, more than 800 neuroscientists, philosophers and curious members of the public packed into an auditorium....
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Shot to Protect Against Polio and Five Other Diseases Is Approved by Gavi

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Why It Matters: Combining vaccines could offer longevity.Oral polio vaccines, administered in droplet form, have driven down polio cases by more than 99...
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First the Smoke. Then the Bugs.

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It’s been described as a plague and a sign of the end times, turning New York City into the “Bug Apple.”Insects may descend...
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