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  iPhone urine analysis app may require FDA approval, says agency

  By Nathan Olivarez-Giles on May 24, 2013 10:21 pm + 24 comments

  In what may be a first for the Federal Drug Administration, the agency has sent a letter to the Continue reading…

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  'Children Are Dying': a harrowing look at America's drug shortage

  By Amar Toor on May 24, 2013 08:32 am + 28 comments

  There's a public health crisis brewing across hospitals in the US, where many sick children are Continue reading…

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  Cockroaches develop glucose intolerance to avoid our poisons

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 24, 2013 06:15 am + 47 comments

  A strain of German cockroach is intolerant to glucose, helping the pests to avoid sugar traps and Continue reading…

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  King Richard III was buried quickly, carelessly, and in far too short a grave

  By Nathan Olivarez-Giles on May 23, 2013 07:00 pm + 35 comments

  For 500 years, the death of King Richard III has been marred in mystery, and new details on his Continue reading…

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  Scientists identify cell that could hold the secret to limb regeneration

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 23, 2013 08:32 am + 44 comments

  Researchers have identified a cell that aids limb regrowth in Salamanders. Macrophages are a type of Continue reading…

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  Children of US immigrants are dying younger than their parents, studies show

  By Amar Toor on May 21, 2013 07:08 am + 24 comments

  Conventional wisdom holds that children of US immigrants should lead more prosperous lives than Continue reading…

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  Space guns, boreholes, and biodomes: the lost dreams of 20th century science

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 20, 2013 03:47 am + 7 comments

  The 20th century, in particular the latter half, played host to some of the most ambitious Continue reading…

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  Your body contains 100 trillion bacteria, but that's a good thing

  By Matt Brian on May 17, 2013 04:58 am + 12 comments

  The human body is inhabited by bacteria and microorganisms — for every cell, there are around 10 Continue reading…

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  Climate change threatens to destroy Alaskan village within four years

  By Amar Toor on May 14, 2013 03:09 am + 66 comments

  The Guardian this week published a fascinating in-depth report on the village of Newtok — a remote Continue reading…

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  New technique could identify deadly superbugs within minutes

  By Amar Toor on May 8, 2013 09:30 am + 3 comments

  Researchers in the US have developed a technique that could prove critical in the fight against Continue reading…