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Health

Why Viruses Kill More Men Than Women

12.19.16

By Denny Watkins
Health

Why Viruses Kill More Men Than Women

12.15.16

By Denny Watkins
Tech

Baby Tasmanian Devils Have Given Us a Potential Treatment for Superbugs

10.18.16

By Kaleigh Rogers
Tech

Is Undead Smallpox Reemerging From Siberian Graves?

08.14.16

By Leif Johnson
Tech

Here’s Where Animal Diseases Are Jumping into Humans

06.15.16

By Sarah Emerson
Tech

Why Health Canada’s Move to Sell ‘Irradiated Beef’ Is a Great Idea

05.30.16

By Kate Lunau
Tech

WHO Releases Its (Now) Annual List of the Nine Most Dire Epidemic Threats

12.12.15

By Michael Byrne
Tech

Let’s Just Calm Down About the Bubonic Plague—For Now

11.01.15

By Michael Byrne
Tech

The Military Is Working on Making Humans as Disease-Resistant as Rats

07.02.15

By Jason Koebler
Travel

Is Antarctic Ecotourism Killing Penguins?

01.13.15

By Wendy Syfret
Tech

Biochemists Uncover Nature’s Own Process of Antibiotic Production

10.26.14

By Michael Byrne
Tech

Not Everyone Is Happy About the White House’s Ban on Superbugs

10.26.14

By Michael Byrne

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