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What can cure fossil fuel dependency and treat bipolar disorder?
Lithium is one helluva drug.
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Does air pollution cause Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s?
Scientists now suspect that a major cause of dementia could be the air we breathe.
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Time to go vegetarian: Smugglers caught with 40-year-old meat
China's latest disgusting food scandal gives a whole new meaning to the term "dry-aged beef."
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Floss is good for your teeth — but is it bad for the environment?
A reader asks for alternatives to plasticky, over-packaged dental floss. Umbra sinks her teeth into some answers.
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The battle over abortion just got a whole lot weirder
Hail Satan and our robot overlords, I guess?
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Distilleries are using ugly fruit to make liqueur — and it’s as tasty as ever
Some distillers are starting to make their eaux de vie and brandies with fruit that would otherwise go to waste.
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Wage gap got you down? Get that money, honey
This Woman Crush Wednesday, we're talkin' ladies in STEM, the Equal Rights Amendment, and bees.
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“The Sioux Chef” dishes on the past — and future — of Native American cuisine
Sean Sherman wants to bring Native American cuisine back to its roots.
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Someone accidentally ate a GMO lamb with jellyfish DNA — and nothing happened
It sounds like a setup to a horror movie: A genetically modified glow-in-the-dark lamb was unintentionally sold to a slaughterhouse. But really, NBD.
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Pope Francis isn’t the only old Catholic who believes in climate change
You might have more in common with your grandpa than you think.