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One of the most feared complications of severe infection — the sudden collapse of kidney function known as acute kidney ...

In a discovery that could reshape how scientists explain the origins of atrial fibrillation, researchers in Italy have shown that ...

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In laboratories on the Indonesian island of Java, two of nature's most accomplished insect assassins have been recruited for a ...

For decades, the fastest way to decode what was unfolding on a volleyball court was a trained human eye—a coach ...

Every autumn, as the rice harvest ends across northern India, a thick, acrid pall of smoke settles over the Indo-Gangetic ...