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School of Medicine researchers have identified the first death caused by what is commonly called the “meat allergy” being ...

This is shown by a new international study from the ICTA-UAB and the McGill University in Canada, which concludes that the ...

Every year, people around the world take an astonishing 3.8 trillion doses of medicine. Most of these medicines are swallowed ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t be said when we’re asked how many ...

Many Americans believe they’re living in a uniquely unhealthy age, beset by chronic diseases our ancestors never faced. In ...

Yellowstone was massive. Roughly a thousand times larger than the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the biggest eruption in the ...

Think traits like eye color or tongue-rolling are simple genetics? Think again. From Mendel’s peas to modern DNA science, let ...