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Health

The How of Seasonal Allergies

Allergies, how do they work?
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Health

The Power of Placebo

Why - and when - is placebo effective?
Various vitamins of different sizes and colors
Health

Do Vitamin Supplements Cause Cancer?

There's been a long history of research on vitamin supplements and their potential cancer risk.
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Plants & Animals

What Happens When You Crack Your Knuckles?

Where does the sound of cracking knuckles come from, and is it dangerous?
Paganini's Bloodletting Kit Courtesy of Schubertiade Music & Arts
Arts & Culture

The Vampire Virtuoso? Paganini’s Bloodletting Kit Is for Sale

Paganini's personal bloodletting kit contains three domed-shape glasses with brass twist spouts and a brass scarification (scraping) tool.
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Science & Technology

So You Want to Move to Mars?

A Dutch non-profit plans to send voyagers on a one-way trip to Mars
By DFID - UK Department for International Development (Flickr: Bracing for a short, sharp jab) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Psy-Q

Should Vaccination Be Compulsory?

While science is clear that vaccines are safe and effective, it is silent on whether or not mandating compulsory vaccination is the right thing to do.
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Psy-Q

Wild, Natural, and Home Births: For the Birds?

Medical research on natural and home births
Woman receiving light therapy.
Psy-Q

PSY-Q: The SAD-dest Time of the Year

What are the treatment options for SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder?
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Plants & Animals

Help is on the Way for Snakebite Victims

Researchers have developed a way to identify the species of snake through a DNA swab of the bite, without killing it.