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New Technology Could Let Disabled Communicate by Sniffing

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An Unbelievable Accent

Doctors AMA Centennial 3-cent 1947 issue U.S. stamp, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Medical Association (AMA).

A Medical Lab on a Postage Stamp

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Please Cover Your Mouth When You Sneeze

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In Search of a Tuberculosis Vaccine

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You Don't Know the Back of Your Hand

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A Spoonful of Pickle Juice...Helps Muscle Cramps Go Down

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Wearing a Water Filter

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Mestizos and Medicinas: Race-Based Medicine in Latin America

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Clean Hands, Clear Conscience

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The Bacterial Evidence on Our Keyboards

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Odd Malaria Risk Factor: Drinking Beer

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Vaccines Don't Cause Autism

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than previously thought.

The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave

A rare cache of hominid fossils from the Kurdistan area of northern Iraq offers a window on Neanderthal culture

Ardi (right) lived in a forest in Africa.  Her fossil skeleton shows that she walked upright and yet had an opposable toe, good for climbing trees.

The Human Family's Earliest Ancestors

Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old "Ardi," are changing ideas about human origins

"Paleo-artist" John Gurche recreates the faces of our earliest ancestors, some of who have been extinct for millions of years.

A Closer Look at Evolutionary Faces

John Gurche, a “paleo-artist,” has recreated strikingly realistic heads of our earliest human ancestors for a new exhibit

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Stephen Hawking's Initials in the Big Bang's Echo

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What Neuroscience Sounds Like

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The Barefoot Running Debate

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Nine Science Stories You Should Have Read This Year

From robot babies to counterfeit drugs, here's what you missed

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