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The results come from a 15-year study that used ultrasound scans to track blood vessels in middle-aged adults starting in 2002.
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Here are the leading solutions to antibiotic resistance, the next major global health threat.
Pfizer
By time you see a pillar at all, almost all of your ‘formation’ is already finished. In the heart of the Eagle Nebula, the iconic Pillars of Creation loom as […]
The incredible story of a scientist who survived gulags, fighting to change his country and physics.
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The greatest space program spinoff? Human collaboration.
Antimicrobial resistance is growing worldwide, rendering many "work horse" medicines ineffective. Without intervention, drug-resistant pathogens could lead to millions of deaths by 2050. Thankfully, companies like Pfizer are taking action.
Pfizer
Two massive clouds of dust in orbit around the Earth have been discussed for years and finally proven to exist.
For two decades she's traveled the world, photographing humans in crisis. Pulitzer and MacArthur winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario on what it's all taught her.
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The bedrock of freedom? Denying the government the power of censorship.
Charles Koch Foundation
Despite what Hawking told you, it really isn’t about particle-antiparticle pairs at all. Nothing in the Universe lives forever. All the stars that will ever form will someday burn out; distant […]
Firefighters in Northern and Southern California are struggling to contain three wildfires that have forced more than 100,000 residents to evacuate.
China's state-run news agency and the search engine company Sogou have developed an artificially intelligent news anchor that can read the news "tirelessly" 24 hours a day.