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If A Nurse Farts In An Operating Theater, Does It Cause Contamination? A Doctor Decided To Investigatea groupof doctors and nurses stand around a patient in the sterile field of an operating theaterIf A Nurse Farts In An Operating Theater, Does It Cause Contamination? A Doctor Decided To Investigatea groupof doctors and nurses stand around a patient in the sterile field of an operating theater

If A Nurse Farts In An Operating Theater, Does It Cause Contamination? A Doctor Decided To Investigate

“I didn't know. But I was determined to find out.”

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Biopsy Causes Woman's Fast-Growing Cancerous Tumor To Disappear In Rare Case Of Spontaneous RemissionAn x-ray image showing the right forearm. The patient's radius and ulna are clearly visible and so is the wrist, which is positioned at the far left of the image. Around half way along the forearm is a white arrow indicating where the tumor is.

Biopsy Causes Woman's Fast-Growing Cancerous Tumor To Disappear In Rare Case Of Spontaneous Remission

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Hantavirus-Stricken Ship En Route To Tenerife As Confirmed Cases Rise To 5, But WHO Assures This Is Not Another COVID-19m/v Hondius ship photographed off Stanley, Falkland Islands

Hantavirus-Stricken Ship En Route To Tenerife As Confirmed Cases Rise To 5, But WHO Assures This Is Not Another COVID-19

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RFK Jr Says You Have A Spoonful Of Plastic In Your Brain – But Do You Really? We Asked The Expertstop-down view of a metal spoon filled with small, multicolored pieces of plastic

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RFK Jr Says You Have A Spoonful Of Plastic In Your Brain – But Do You Really? We Asked The Expertstop-down view of a metal spoon filled with small, multicolored pieces of plastic
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RFK Jr Says You Have A Spoonful Of Plastic In Your Brain – But Do You Really? We Asked The Experts

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First-Ever Transplant Of Testicular Tissue Frozen For Nearly 20 Years Found To Produce Spermsmall test tube held in tweezers over a container of dry ice

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First-Ever Transplant Of Testicular Tissue Frozen For Nearly 20 Years Found To Produce Spermsmall test tube held in tweezers over a container of dry ice
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First-Ever Transplant Of Testicular Tissue Frozen For Nearly 20 Years Found To Produce Sperm

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3 Dead Amid Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak, The Same Infection That Killed Gene Hackman’s Wife Betsy Arakawacruise ship m/v Hondius off the coast of Ushuaia, Argentina; a circular cutout shows an illustration of a hantavirus particle

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3 Dead Amid Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak, The Same Infection That Killed Gene Hackman’s Wife Betsy Arakawacruise ship m/v Hondius off the coast of Ushuaia, Argentina; a circular cutout shows an illustration of a hantavirus particle
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3 Dead Amid Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak, The Same Infection That Killed Gene Hackman’s Wife Betsy Arakawa

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The “Plague of Athens” Was One Of The World’s First Epidemics – And Now We May Know What Caused ItThe ancient city of Athens

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The “Plague of Athens” Was One Of The World’s First Epidemics – And Now We May Know What Caused ItThe ancient city of Athens
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The “Plague of Athens” Was One Of The World’s First Epidemics – And Now We May Know What Caused It

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Early In A Pandemic, Some Hosts Might Act As “Evolutionary Accelerators” For The Virusconcept art of pandemic; virus particles surrounding a globe

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Early In A Pandemic, Some Hosts Might Act As “Evolutionary Accelerators” For The Virusconcept art of pandemic; virus particles surrounding a globe
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Early In A Pandemic, Some Hosts Might Act As “Evolutionary Accelerators” For The Virus

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Blocking A Single Protein In Alzheimer’s Disease Could Boost The Brain’s Cleanup Crew, Slowing Memory Lossillustration of orange microglia within blue brain tissue

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Blocking A Single Protein In Alzheimer’s Disease Could Boost The Brain’s Cleanup Crew, Slowing Memory Lossillustration of orange microglia within blue brain tissue
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Blocking A Single Protein In Alzheimer’s Disease Could Boost The Brain’s Cleanup Crew, Slowing Memory Loss

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Tick Bites Are Sending More People In The US Than Usual To The ER Right Now – Here’s What To Watch Out Forblacklegged tick on a plant

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Tick Bites Are Sending More People In The US Than Usual To The ER Right Now – Here’s What To Watch Out Forblacklegged tick on a plant
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Tick Bites Are Sending More People In The US Than Usual To The ER Right Now – Here’s What To Watch Out For

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The Human Brain Vs. A 21st Century World: Dr Hannah Critchlow On Cognition, Creativity, And “That Incredible Organ On The Top Of Our Head”concept art of a human brain with figures floating around it and ribbons of blue, pink and turquoise. One figure is holding a wrench and performing "maintenance", another is reading a book, and the third is wearing headphones

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The Human Brain Vs. A 21st Century World: Dr Hannah Critchlow On Cognition, Creativity, And “That Incredible Organ On The Top Of Our Head”concept art of a human brain with figures floating around it and ribbons of blue, pink and turquoise. One figure is holding a wrench and performing "maintenance", another is reading a book, and the third is wearing headphones
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The Human Brain Vs. A 21st Century World: Dr Hannah Critchlow On Cognition, Creativity, And “That Incredible Organ On The Top Of Our Head”

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HIV Was Quietly Influencing Human Evolution. Antiretroviral Therapy Stopped It In Its TracksScanning electron micrograph of an HIV-infected H9 T cell, colorized in Halloween colors

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HIV Was Quietly Influencing Human Evolution. Antiretroviral Therapy Stopped It In Its TracksScanning electron micrograph of an HIV-infected H9 T cell, colorized in Halloween colors
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HIV Was Quietly Influencing Human Evolution. Antiretroviral Therapy Stopped It In Its Tracks

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“I Can’t Tell You How Many Times People Said ‘It Will Never Work’”: The Pioneers Of Gene Therapy Honored In Two Of This Year’s Breakthrough Prizesillustration of two scientists cutting and adding in new bits of DNA to represent gene editing and gene therapy

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“I Can’t Tell You How Many Times People Said ‘It Will Never Work’”: The Pioneers Of Gene Therapy Honored In Two Of This Year’s Breakthrough Prizesillustration of two scientists cutting and adding in new bits of DNA to represent gene editing and gene therapy
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“I Can’t Tell You How Many Times People Said ‘It Will Never Work’”: The Pioneers Of Gene Therapy Honored In Two Of This Year’s Breakthrough Prizes

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RFK Jr’s Vaccine Advisors Voted To Delay Hepatitis B Vaccines For Newborns. That Could Cause Additional Deaths – And Cost The US Up To $370 Millionclose-up of a newborn baby crying

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RFK Jr’s Vaccine Advisors Voted To Delay Hepatitis B Vaccines For Newborns. That Could Cause Additional Deaths – And Cost The US Up To $370 Millionclose-up of a newborn baby crying
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RFK Jr’s Vaccine Advisors Voted To Delay Hepatitis B Vaccines For Newborns. That Could Cause Additional Deaths – And Cost The US Up To $370 Million

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New 18 Hertz Sound Experiment May Explain Reports Of Hauntings In Old Buildings And BasementsA black and white image of the corner of an abanonded room with a singl;e lightbulb on the floor and, if you squint, the shadow of a ghostly figure by the window

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New 18 Hertz Sound Experiment May Explain Reports Of Hauntings In Old Buildings And BasementsA black and white image of the corner of an abanonded room with a singl;e lightbulb on the floor and, if you squint, the shadow of a ghostly figure by the window
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New 18 Hertz Sound Experiment May Explain Reports Of Hauntings In Old Buildings And Basements

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Why Don't We See Our Own Noses All The Time?A woman looking cross-eyed as she tries to look at her own nose.
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Why Don't We See Our Own Noses All The Time?

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Scientists Made Mice Fear A Smell They'd Never Experienced – But It Had Traumatized Their ParentsA lab mouse in a tank.
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Scientists Made Mice Fear A Smell They'd Never Experienced – But It Had Traumatized Their Parents

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What Is Lujo Virus And Why Is It So Deadly?3D illustration of ovoid arenavirus particles with surface proteins sticking out all over them
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What Is Lujo Virus And Why Is It So Deadly?

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What Happens To Your Body On These Popular Diets?man eats steak
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What Happens To Your Body On These Popular Diets?

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The Genetic Risk Of Inbreeding Explainedhasburgs jaw
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The Genetic Risk Of Inbreeding Explained

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No Mind’s Eye? The Fascinating Science Of Aphantasia Explainedno mind's eye
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No Mind’s Eye? The Fascinating Science Of Aphantasia Explained

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First-Of-Its-Kind Gene Therapy For Inherited Hearing Loss Approved By FDA As Trial Shows Improvement In 80 Percent Of Patientsillustration of DNA on a purple background

First-Of-Its-Kind Gene Therapy For Inherited Hearing Loss Approved By FDA As Trial Shows Improvement In 80 Percent Of Patients

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Alzheimer’s Drugs That Target Amyloid Plaques Have No “Meaningful” Effects, Says Major Review, Sparking Fierce Debate From Scientists3D representation of neurons with amyloid plaques between them, a hallmark of alzheimer's disease; there is a target crosshair over one of the yellow plaques

Alzheimer’s Drugs That Target Amyloid Plaques Have No “Meaningful” Effects, Says Major Review, Sparking Fierce Debate From Scientists

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Scarlet Fever Bacterium Discovered In Pre-Columbian Mummy, Suggesting Disease Was Present In Americas Long Before Europeans ArrivedA close up photo of a yellowed tooth. The specimen is laying on its side, facing the left. Its surface is coated in a rough darker-brown layer and then a coating of white/yellowish patches at its base.

Scarlet Fever Bacterium Discovered In Pre-Columbian Mummy, Suggesting Disease Was Present In Americas Long Before Europeans Arrived

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"You Have To Iterate, You Have To Fail, You Have To Quickly Pick Yourself Up": Genome Loaded Onto Quantum Computer For First TimeGlowing DNA symbol on abstract blue background, closeup.

"You Have To Iterate, You Have To Fail, You Have To Quickly Pick Yourself Up": Genome Loaded Onto Quantum Computer For First Time

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“Neither The Stimulus Nor The Listener Alone Usually Tells The Whole Story”: The Science Of Aesthetic Chillsfigure sitting cross-legged in a meditation pose wearing headphones, surrounded by concentric circles of wavy lines and musical notes, with colours going from orange in the center to yellow at the edges.

“Neither The Stimulus Nor The Listener Alone Usually Tells The Whole Story”: The Science Of Aesthetic Chills

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Our Brains Use The Same Process To Make Free And Forced Decisions, Neuroscientists DiscoverA photo showing a woman holding two bags of coffee. The photo has been cropped so that it is focusing on her hands only. She is standing on profile facing a shelf of coffee that is just visible to the right of the image.

Our Brains Use The Same Process To Make Free And Forced Decisions, Neuroscientists Discover

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“The Longer We Trade Animals, The More Pathogens Make The Jump”: 40 Years Of Data Shows Wildlife Trade Boosts Chances Of Disease Spilloverseveral bird cages sitting on the floor at Pramuka bird market in Jakarta, Indonesia

“The Longer We Trade Animals, The More Pathogens Make The Jump”: 40 Years Of Data Shows Wildlife Trade Boosts Chances Of Disease Spillover

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RFK Jr's Claims About Paracetamol During Pregnancy And Water Fluoridation Have Just Been Proven Wrong, Againwater spurting out of a black and blue PVC pipe onto some grass

RFK Jr's Claims About Paracetamol During Pregnancy And Water Fluoridation Have Just Been Proven Wrong, Again

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