Edward Jenner was able to formulate a makeshift smallpox vaccine all the way back in 1798, but even back then, people weren’t very normal about it. Skeptics spread alarming propaganda, claiming the ...

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Germ theory is the idea that pathogens can invade the human body and cause disease — and it wasn't always accepted. Evidence for germ theory accumulated over time, and as it did, it butted against ...

Norway has temporarily halted the use of a methane-reducing feed additive for dairy cows, following widespread claims by Danish farmers that their cattle are experiencing serious health issues ...

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Microscope-captured images of a mammary gland of a pig show the presence of influenza receptors. In the image on the left, receptors for avian influenza A are colored orange. In the image on the right ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New York and her maternal grandparents’ in Wilmington, N.C. (She changed her ...

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