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Would You Donate Your Body to Test Pig Organs?
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How Does Our Butt Know If It’s a Fart or Poop?
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How New Research Shows We Don’t Age Evenly
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A Study (Tenuously) Links Omega-3s and Depression
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Beets Have More Nitrates Than Salami. So Why Is Deli Meat Unhealthy?
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Why Can’t We Power Our Homes From Lightning Strikes?
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Why It’s Almost Impossible to Test For Prions
Mad cow disease is incurable and difficult to detect.
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A Review Study Finds No Benefit to Mild Alcohol Consumption
Dispelling the common myth of “one glass…
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How Does a 1,200 Pound Cow Get Enough Protein?
Everything that you learned about cows as a child is wrong.
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How Ants Can Perform Amputations
Life-saving surgery on others isn’t just in humans.
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