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DNA testing uncovers fertility doctor’s decades-old dark secret

Sarah Zhang | 
The first Facebook message arrived when Heather Woock was packing for vacation, in August 2017. It was from a stranger claiming to ...
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Viewpoint: Autism research is leaving girls behind

Emily Sohn | 
Evidence that clinicians are missing girls with autism has been building for years. Because autistic girls tend to exhibit different traits than ...
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Huntington’s risk spawns niche IVF market for people who don’t want a diagnosis

Sarah Zhang | 
When Jennifer Leyton was going through IVF, her doctors would tell her very little. They turned off the ultrasound screen ...
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Is there such a thing as an anti-Alzheimer’s diet?

Cynthia Graber, Nicola Twilley | 
By 2050, an estimated 15 million people in America will have Alzheimer’s—the equivalent of the combined populations of New York ...
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DNA of the dead: Genetic testing companies offering to use envelopes licked by the deceased

Sarah Zhang | 
In the past year, genealogists have been abuzz about the possibility of getting DNA out of old stamps and envelopes ...
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Why your dog really can tell if you are sick

Amanda Mull | 
I was sick last week, and as [my Chihuahua] Midge was glued to my side, friends told me about their ...
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Why bleak, frightening dreams may make us better people

Ben Healy | 
What are dreams for? A handful of theories predominate. Sigmund Freud famously contended that they reveal hidden truths and wishes. More recent ...
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What explains twins that are ‘somewhere in between’ fraternal and identical?

Sarah Zhang | 
A few years ago, Michael Gabbett got a call from a very confused ob-gyn. A woman had come in pregnant ...
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Making the case for potential benefits of microdosing LSD and ‘magic’ mushrooms

Haley Weiss | 
[A]necdotal endorsements of [psychedelic] microdosing claim that the routine can lead to a whole variety of benefits, including heightened emotional ...
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Viewpoint: Why the crusade against ‘toxic masculinity’ ignores ‘real-life conditions’

Michael Salter | 
Over the past several years, toxic masculinity has become a catchall explanation for male violence and sexism. The appeal of ...
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Why growing up poor could hurt your brain in old age

Olga Khazan | 
In 2004, a study titled “The Long Arm of Childhood” found that whether children were rich or poor could influence their health ...
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70% of teens see mental health, depression as a ‘major struggle’ for their generation in Pew survey

Amanda Mull | 
In the past decade, young people in the United States have borne the brunt of some of the most highly ...
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‘Google of sorts’: DNA database harnesses power of genome sequences

Sarah Zhang | 
In 2015, scientists discovered a pig in China that would set off a frantic, worldwide search. The pig carried bacteria ...
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Why Silicon Valley’s food-depriving ‘productivity hacks’ could be dangerous

Amanda Mull | 
Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, doesn’t eat for 22 hours of the day, and sometimes not at all. Over the weekend ...
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How long can bacteria live? 500-year experiment could provide answers

Sarah Zhang | 
In the year 2514, some future scientist will arrive at the University of Edinburgh (assuming the university still exists), open ...
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‘Men are struggling’: Psychologists get new guidelines for ‘traditional masculinity’

Amanda Mull | 
[T]he American Psychological Association, the country’s largest professional organization of psychologists, did something for men that it’s done for many ...
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‘Affective presence’: It’s what helps others decide if you are likable

Julie Beck | 
Some people can walk into a room and instantly put everyone at ease. Others seem to make teeth clench and ...
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How AIDS transformed genetic engineering

Eben Kirksey | 
For two decades, [Matt] Sharp had been living with HIV. He’d watched the height of the aids crisis claim dozens of his ...
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‘Cute aggression’: Why our brains love puppies and kittens

Amanda Mull | 
I harass my dog [constantly]. She’s a little loaf of a thing, with big eyes and satellite-dish ears and a ...
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Controversial treatment: Can we treat drug addiction with heroin?

Zachary Siegel | 
As overdose deaths have broken records year after year in the U.S., a group of researchers has looked around the ...
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Only half of psychology studies can be replicated. That’s a big problem

Ed Yong | 
Over the past few years, an international team of almost 200 psychologists has been trying to repeat a set of ...
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‘Anti-evolution drug’ could stop superbugs from mutating

Ed Yong | 
Over the past 90 years, scientists have discovered hundreds of antibiotics—microbe-killing drugs that have brought many pernicious diseases to heel ...
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DNA test for your dog? Here’s what your vet thinks about it

Sarah Zhang | 
[T]he direct-to-dog-owner market has become bigger and more crowded: Embark, DNA My Dog, and Paw Print Genetics are just a few ...
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Why our shrinking attention spans might be a good thing

Ben Healy | 
Our supposedly shrinking attention spans are a hot topic these days—as you may have seen on TV or heard on a ...
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‘Blinding speed’: How an ice age led to the populating of the Americas

Ed Yong | 
Tens of thousands of years ago, two gigantic ice sheets smothered the northernmost parts of what has since been named ...
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No, humans haven’t wiped out 60 percent of animals since 1970. But things still look ugly

Ed Yong | 
Since [October 29], news networks and social media have been abuzz with the claim that, as The Guardian among others ...
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Chasing the virus behind surging polio-like illness

Ed Yong | 
[Fall 2014] Kevin Messacar, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Colorado, started seeing a wave of children with inexplicable paralysis. All of ...
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