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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
Lights. Action. Asthma.
What is it like living with asthma?
How can some species survive without sex?
Matthew Meselson and David Mark Welch explore the role of sex in evolutionary biology.
Japan's No-Aerobics
A recent World Health Organization study, coauthored by Christopher Murray, professor of international health economics, ranked the Japanese as...
The Half-life of Robin and Kim
By now firemen, policemen, and mailmen sound like cultural relics from the 1950s next to the no-nonsense firefighters, police officers, and...
Distant Planets
In the last five years, the idea of finding planets orbiting other stars has gone from a science-fiction fantasy to a reality frequently...