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Looking for a healthy meat substitute? Consider the potato
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: The beginning of the end for “monkeypox,” dancing without hearing, and fighting without doctors … and socks.
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Give bacterial diversity a chance: The antibiotic dichotomy
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: An Apple product is actually the affordable option, and irradiated rats fill in for sleeping astronauts.
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Have you heard the one about the emergency dept. that called 911?
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: LDL cholesterol unimpressed by heart-healthy supplements, and college students emboldened by negative COVID tests.
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The truth of alcohol consequences
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: It’s nice to share … COVID infection data, and there’s another reason to hate January.
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Many specialists are on the wrong side of the patient-jargon relationship
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Obesity could put the sand in sandwiches, and Reliebo could be the antianxiety robot we’ve been looking for.
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This brain surgery was BYOS: Bring your own saxophone
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Mosquito attraction tested and women’s verbal fluency advantage confirmed.
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Keep menstrual cramps away the dietary prevention way
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Unemotional robots provoke emotional humans, superorganisms walk and leap around children’s mouths.
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Malaria vaccine gets special delivery by tiny health personnel
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Sleeping and sweating the years away and dragon-sized embezzling from a cancer charity.
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Meet our newest genetically engineered frenemy, herpes
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Christina Manago
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Cooking and cleaning your way to air pollution, dying to become a tree, and thawing out “COVID-frozen” goals.
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Early bird gets the worm, night owl gets the diabetes
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Christina Manago
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Sweating for mosquito science, sharing genes with zebrafish, and sharing vomit with synanthropic flies.
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‘Dr. Caveman’ had a leg up on amputation
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Christina Manago
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Walking your way to a quieter baby, lending a nose to Parkinson’s research, and identifying the office flirts.
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One fish, two fish, are good fish for you ... fish
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Christina Manago
- Teraya Smith
Plus: The secret lives of Vikings’ parasites, the first truck to perform a vasectomy, and the benefits of random-but-not-quite noise.
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Real medical news: Many teens trust fake medical news
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus, an artificial intelligence that predicts birth outcomes and an Italian election that went viral.
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No fish can escape this net ... of COVID testing
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Christina Manago
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Medieval friars and the guests that wouldn’t leave, the shared interests of doppelgangers, and relationships built on guilt and secrecy.
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Primary care now offering physicians the 26.7-hour day
- Author:
- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Christina Manago
- Teraya Smith
Plus: The reality of mental exhaustion, the hormone of aggressive cuddling, and the instruments of COVID spread.