Humans

  1. Health & Medicine

    Long-lasting flu vaccine could replace yearly shots

    Researchers have developed a single vaccine that protects mice from many types of flu. Such a development could lead to where people only day might no longer need a yearly flu shot.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Analyze This: Flu vaccine’s protection varies

    Getting a flu shot every year is an important way to protect yourself and those around you — even if the vaccine isn’t 100 percent effective.

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  3. Microbes

    Scientists Say: Microbiome

    You’ve got company. Every animal and plant has microscopic organisms living on and in them. These include bacteria, protists, archaea, fungi and viruses.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    New treatment could calm temperature-sensitive teeth

    Dentists aren’t happy with today’s treatments for sensitive teeth. Sand-like nanoparticles carrying green tea extract could bring longer pain relief.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Raw cookie dough’s flour could make you really sick

    It’s not just the eggs in cookie dough that can pose food-poisoning risks. Even flour can sicken people if it is eaten raw.

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  6. Brain

    Trading smartphone time for sleep? Your loss

    A new study shows more and more teenagers are hanging out on devices when they should be catching ZZZs, putting their health at risk.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    High-nicotine e-cigs up chance teen will become a smoker

    New study links vaping high levels of nicotine to greater likelihood teens will vape — and smoke — six months later.

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  8. Life

    Doctors repair skin of boy dying from ‘butterfly’ disease

    Researchers fixed a genetic defect, then replaced about 80 percent of a child’s skin. This essentially cured the boy’s life-threatening disease.

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  9. Chemistry

    Scientists Say: Amino Acid

    Amino acids are small molecules that make up proteins and serve as messengers in our cells.

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  10. Archaeology

    Scientists detect mystery void in Great Pyramid of Giza

    Using high-tech tools normally reserved for studies in particle physics, scientists have found a large, hidden void inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Scientists Say: Vestigial

    This adjective is used to describe something — like a body part or organ — that doesn’t have a function. Often it is smaller or less developed than the functional version in another species.

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  12. Environment

    Touching receipts can lead to lengthy pollutant exposures

    The chemical BPA, which coats some cash-register receipts, may linger in the body for far longer than if someone had ingested it.

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