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Wellcome Library, London The Gruesome, Bloody World of Victorian Surgery
A new book follows Joseph Lister as he ushers surgery into the modern age.
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NASA A Giant Blob of Floodwater From Harvey Is Still Moving Through the Gulf
Scientists aren’t sure exactly what happens when so much freshwater gets into the ocean at once.
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Saraf et al / Healio A Woman Went Blind After Stem Cells Were Injected in Her Eyes
And she isn’t the only one.
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Collection of Harvard Medical School / Courtesy of ... How a Gilded-Age Heiress Became the 'Mother of Forensic Science'
Frances Glessner Lee created meticulous and gruesome dioramas of murder scenes, which are still used to train police today.
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Handout / Reuters The Rescue Networks That Save Cats and Dogs From Hurricanes
“Today marks day 37 without a day off.”
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Mike Fuentes / AP The Genomic Revolution Reaches the City Crime Lab
How will law enforcement handle the deluge of new information available from DNA?
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Modern Meadow Leather, Grown in a Lab Without Cows
Modern Meadow’s factory will crank out leather via yeast fermentation.
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Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale / Library and Archives Canada How One Woman Brought the 'Mother's Curse' to Canada
Old French Canadian genealogy records reveal how a harmful mutation can hide from natural selection in a mother's DNA.
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Wellcome Trust The Museum of Colonialism
The man—and the empire—that made the British Museum
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Umit Bektas / Reuters Huge DNA Databases Reveal the Recent Evolution of Humans
The real clue is what scientists did not find.
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Public Domain Has a Mysterious Medieval Code Really Been Solved?
Experts say no.
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Olaf Leillinger / Creative Commons Genetically Modified Moths Come to New York
A diamondback moth with altered DNA is being tested to control pests on cabbages.
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Eric Gaillard / Reuters The Cancer Patient Taking On High Drug Prices
It takes $440,000 of medications a year to keep David Mitchell alive. Now he’s founded a nonprofit to make drugs more affordable.
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters Will People Return to Houston After Hurricane Harvey?
How past natural disasters have impacted migration patterns
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Gregory Bull / AP A Chemical Plant Catches Fire After Harvey Flooding
Houston is the petrochemical capital of the U.S., which makes it especially vulnerable to such accidents after a natural disaster.
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Rita Elena Serda / National Cancer Institute / ... The FDA Approves a Landmark Cancer Drug
CAR T-cell therapy turns the body’s own immune systems against cancer with genetic engineering.
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Brant Kelly / Flickr Yes, That's a Huge Floating Mass of Live Fire Ants in Texas
Floods make them more venomous and more aggressive.
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Eric Gay / AP What 35 Inches of Rain Dredges Up
Hurricane Harvey’s unusual path could hit Houston with rain and storm surges at the same time—surfacing gators, snakes, sewage, and coffins.
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Petrofac / Reuters When a Hurricane Hits an Offshore Oil Platform
Harvey could seriously damage oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Courtesy of Robert Boessenecker A Prehistoric Toothless Dolphin That Ate by Vacuuming Up Squid
A 30-million-year-old fossil found in South Carolina belonged to a weird, weird creature.
