“No, Mya. I’m not going to the doctor. I don’t need to. I’m fine,” my mother insisted, mitigating my concerns through her inflamed vocal cords. I watched as she grimaced in pain, trying to breathe through what seemed to be one nostril, her voice taking the comical nasal tone of a kazoo. As I began […]
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It was dinner time on January 24, 2023, and Patrick Clancy had just left his home in Duxbury, MA to pick up some food for his wife and kids. In his 20-minute absence, his wife, Lindsay Clancy, strangled and killed each of their three children with exercise bands before cutting herself with a knife and
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Many people have likely heard that humans are 98% related to chimps, but would you guess that we also share 50 to 60% of our genes with bananas? This surprising overlap is the result of billions of years of evolution from an ancient common ancestor. While humans and bananas have acquired different structures and functions,
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The age-old myths that humans use 10% of their brains, or that the brain stops developing after the age of 25, have resulted in the underestimation of the complexity of this powerful organ. Until about the 1960s, scientists believed that the brain is static, or unchanging, after it reaches a certain stage. In 1964, neuroscientist
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Imagine a future where managing weight becomes less of a struggle and more of a sustainable lifestyle change. This future has now become a reality, with the FDA’s approval of Eli Lilly and Company’s Zepbound, promising a revolutionary approach to chronic weight management. This new treatment represents the company’s commitment to addressing complex health challenges
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By the year 2050, researchers estimate that minorities will make up 50% of the United States’ total population. Demographically, the healthcare system should reflect such a distribution, yet it has dramatically fallen short. For example, although African Americans make up about 15% of the US population, they only represent 7% of all medical doctors. The
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There are few things as mysterious as the creation of the universe. Before humans knew just how big the universe was, they still wondered why and how they existed and what was beyond the expansive sky. Humans as a species have always been curious about their beginnings, and although there are still a lot of
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Common sense, or the practical knowledge shared by the majority of the population regarding everyday matters, is ambiguous: It is difficult to know exactly why something is common sense even though it is intuitively clear. Many often assume that something clear to one person is also clear to another, but this may not be the
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Marine scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have discovered the largest known deep-sea coral reef in the world. This cold-water reef located off the Atlantic coast of the United States spans from Florida to South Carolina. This totals to a length of around 310 miles and is equivalent to three times the size