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Cootie Catchers Say Lice Reveal Lots About Early Humans

Children are returning to school and parents have done all they can to prep. But not even the most diligent efforts can save your child from the lice bug

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The Science of Football

A roundup of how scientists explain America’s most popular sport

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Flu Shots for (Nearly) All

Snow's map led him to the source of a London cholera outbreak in 1854

Cholera, John Snow and the Grand Experiment

A British physician first determined that cholera spread through contaminated water in the 1850s, but the disease remains a major health risk today

Using scaffolds and a patients own cells grown in a laboratory, researchers are building replacement body parts.

Organs Made to Order

It won’t be long before surgeons routinely install replacement body parts created in the laboratory

Melinda Gates, with caregivers in Rampur Bhuligadha, India, says infant deaths can be halved by 2025.

Melinda French Gates on Saving Lives

The co-chair of the world’s largest philanthropy talks about what can be done to improve global health and poverty

Well before his discovery of penicillin, Alexander Fleming was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. Less well known is that he also painted with living organisms.

Painting With Penicillin: Alexander Fleming’s Germ Art

The scientist created works of art using microbes, but did his artwork help lead him to his greatest discovery?

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Wearing a Water Filter

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