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As an actress, she was known as the “most beautiful woman in the world” during the 1940s. Lamarr was also a technological ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

After being hunted to eradication in Washington and Oregon in the 1930s and 1940s, the gray wolf’s recovery in these states ...

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For decades, we've used body mass index (BMI) to infer the basic health of an individual. However, BMI fails to account for factors such as athleticism, cholesterol levels, and blood pressure.

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It’s not just the hiking trail where you need to worry about ticks. These arthropods are now a problem in major cities—and ...