Jan 12
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A new report released Tuesday by the American Cancer Society provides some good news: Americans who had cancer in…
Dec 17
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In a groundbreaking decision on Wednesday, a UK court ruled that polluted air was a contributing factor to the…
Dec 11
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New modeling from the Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention paints a grim outlook for the near-term future…
Nov 5
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The Evergreen state has become even more, uh, evergreen. Washington passed a law in 2019 allowing people to turn…
Oct 30
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I do not keep up with the Kardashians.
Oct 27
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As often as comic book publishers bring characters back from the dead, you would think comics themselves wouldn’t…
Oct 23
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On Thursday, the United States reported over 77,000 new cases of covid-19, according to a tally maintained by NBC…
Oct 21
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A 28-year-old Brazilian resident participating in a covid-19 vaccine trial run by AstraZeneca and the University of…
Oct 15
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You may not fully realize it to look at a lot of the promotional material, but Soul, Pixar’s new movie on its way to…
Sep 17
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How do you explain death to a young child? That’s the premise behind the first trailer for The Place of No Words, a…
Sep 11
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Death is one of the few things that unites everyone. Whether we fear it for ourselves or for our loved ones, odds…
Aug 27
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Climbing Mount Everest is one of the hardest athletic feats a person can do. But new research out this week suggests…
Aug 18
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The covid-19 pandemic has just breezed through another ignoble milestone in the U.S. The viral disease has taken…
Aug 3
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Thousands are currently engaged in solving the problem of death. Maybe they’ll succeed, and out of sheer boredom…
Jul 21
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Her unsettling, seemingly agonized facial expression gave this ancient Egyptian mummy the nickname “screaming…
Jun 15
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Show me a museum of important historical inventors and I will show you a gallery of deluded mass murderers. I’m not…
May 29
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Here’s our roundup of the latest developments and research into covid-19, including more evidence of racial…
May 20
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A report released Wednesday provides some early insight into the damage covid-19 has already wrought on one of the…
May 20
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Singapore’s Supreme Court sentenced a man to death via Zoom video chat on Friday, according to a report from the Stra…
May 9
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The worst-case scenario with coronavirus is not mass death. It’s that people come to accept mass death—to accept…