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Natalia Ivanytsky spent the last year unearthing Boston’s secrets. After a year of researching and exploring, the Charlestown ...

Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...

AIKEN — Thirteen students with intellectual disabilities will receive a credential at USC Aiken’s May 7 commencement ceremony ...

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Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory.