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Earlier this month, the American Physical Society published a study in their online journal utilizing modern epidemiological and statistical techniques to explore the impact of ...
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A new study published online by Nature, the international weekly journal of science, suggests that a long-standing cannibalistic ritual among the Fore people of Papua New ...
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Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently reported an alarming increase in the number of Chikungunya cases throughout the Caribbean. While ...
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Science writer and blogger Kyle Hill recently explored the unusual virology of The Walking Dead in a fascinating new article for Discover Magazine. And his ...
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While stories of vampire graves are nothing new, a recent discovery in the Polish town of Gliwice may suggest that residents had much more to ...
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Early last week it was widely reported that a giant and dangerous species of snail had invaded Texas. Word quickly spread that the Giant African ...
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