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Medical cures are usually too good to be true. Numerous doctors wrote to the prestigious British Medical Journal, reporting on their prescription of raw meat juice to patients.

On Earth Day, one mom argues for “green time” over “screen time.”

An anthropologist investigating one group of committed gamers found people attracted not to realism, but to deeply engaging cooperative projects.

This new AI will protect endangered species from poachers, says a team of conservationists and astrophysicists.

Most people know that the X chromosome is one of the two sex chromosomes. But it does more than just determine if you're born male or female.

Platypuses. They’re weird. In fact, platypuses are so unusual that it took taxonomists more than eighty years just to decide what they are.

We have to become smarter news and advertising consumers, and learn to resist the unceasing stream of slanted messages that come our way.