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How South Korea Puts Its Food Scraps to Good Use

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Around the world, most of the 1.4 billion tons of food thrown away each year goes to landfills. As it rots, it pollutes...
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New Obesity Drugs Come With a Side Effect of Shaming

Barbara Chase -
Eileen Isotalo was always able to lose weight, but always gained it back. Now 66, her first diet was with Weight Watchers at...
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This Extinct Dolphin Had Tusks That Fish Were Wise to Avoid

Barbara Chase -
The waters off New Zealand 25 million years ago were home to early baleen whales, megatooth sharks and human-size penguins. Now researchers are...
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These Flies Age Faster After Witnessing Death

Barbara Chase -
“There’s a very special place in fly hell for me,” said Christi Gendron, a neurobiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.Dr....
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Scalpel, Forceps, Bone Drill: Modern Medicine in Ancient Rome

Barbara Chase -
Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were skeptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of...
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Rhinos’ Horns Were Cut to Thwart Poachers. After, They Didn’t Go Out Much.

Barbara Chase -
Black rhinos are the junkyard dogs of their species. They’re not the biggest rhinos in Africa, but they’re known for aggressively patrolling and...
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How Chatbots Are Helping Doctors Be More Human and Empathetic

Barbara Chase -
On Nov. 30 last year, Microsoft and OpenAI released the first free version of ChatGPT. Within 72 hours, doctors were using the artificial...
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Owen Gingerich, Astronomer Who Saw God in the Cosmos, Dies at 93

Barbara Chase -
Owen Gingerich, a noted astronomer who was particularly interested in the history of his field — so much so that he spent years...
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Arizona, Low on Water, Weighs Taking It From the Sea. In Mexico.

Barbara Chase -
Fifty miles south of the U.S. border, at the edge of a city on the Gulf of California, a few acres of dusty...
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Hospice Is a Profitable Business, but Nonprofits Mostly Do a Better Job

Barbara Chase -
In the nearly 20 years that Megan Stainer worked in nursing homes in and around Detroit, she could almost always tell which patients...
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