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An El Niño event of historic proportions is taking shape in the tropical Pacific, bringing unusually warm ocean conditions and ...

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A new genetic analysis of major depressive disorder has identified a striking link between one of depression’s most overlooked symptoms—hypersomnia, ...

A large-scale review of prostate cancer in sub-Saharan Africa has found a substantial and often aggressive disease burden across the ...

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The deep ocean has long been treated as a remote backdrop to human affairs—a dark, pressurized world far below the ...

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A new randomized controlled field trial in urban Australia has put mosquito control at the center of an unexpected public-health ...

Ovarian cancer may soon be examined through a new kind of microscope that relies on the natural light-emitting properties of ...