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How the Gut-Brain Axis Works—Your Second Brain Science

How the Gut-Brain Axis Works—Your Second Brain

The gut contains 500 million neurons and produces over 90% of the body's serotonin. The gut-brain axis is a bidirectional communication highway linkin...

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How Brain-Eating Amoebas Work—and Why They're Spreading Science

How Brain-Eating Amoebas Work—and Why They're Spreading

Naegleria fowleri kills over 97% of those infected by traveling from the nose to the brain. Climate change is pushing this rare but devastating organi...

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How Malaria Works—and Why It Still Kills Health

How Malaria Works—and Why It Still Kills

Malaria kills over 600,000 people a year despite being preventable and treatable. Here's how the parasite hijacks your blood cells, evades your immune...

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How Male Contraception Works—and Why It's So Hard Science

How Male Contraception Works—and Why It's So Hard

Men have had only three birth-control options for decades. A look at why developing new male contraceptives is so difficult, what approaches scientist...

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How Hydrogen Sulfide Kills—and Why You Can't Smell It Science

How Hydrogen Sulfide Kills—and Why You Can't Smell It

Hydrogen sulfide is one of the deadliest gases in industrial workplaces. It smells like rotten eggs at low levels but destroys your sense of smell at...

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How Pharmacogenomics Works—Why the Same Drug Hits Different Health

How Pharmacogenomics Works—Why the Same Drug Hits Different

Pharmacogenomics explains why identical medications can cure one patient and harm another. By reading genetic variants in drug-metabolizing enzymes an...

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How GLP-1 Drugs Work—and Why They Do So Much Health

How GLP-1 Drugs Work—and Why They Do So Much

GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide mimic a natural gut hormone to control blood sugar and appetite, but emerging research shows they also protec...

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How Microplastics Enter Your Body—and What They Do Science

How Microplastics Enter Your Body—and What They Do

Microplastics reach the human body through food, water, and air, accumulating in organs from the lungs to the brain. Here's what science knows about h...

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How the Clean Air Act Works—and Why It Saves Lives Science

How the Clean Air Act Works—and Why It Saves Lives

The Clean Air Act is one of the most consequential environmental laws ever written, preventing hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and cutting m...

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How Measles Works—the Most Contagious Virus Known Health

How Measles Works—the Most Contagious Virus Known

Measles is the most contagious disease known to science, with each infected person spreading it to 12–18 others. Beyond its immediate symptoms, it cau...

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How AI Detects Skin Cancer—and Why It Matters Health

How AI Detects Skin Cancer—and Why It Matters

Artificial intelligence is transforming skin cancer detection through image-analyzing algorithms and spectroscopy devices that match or exceed dermato...

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How AI Medical Scribes Work—and Why They Spark Debate Technology

How AI Medical Scribes Work—and Why They Spark Debate

AI medical scribes use ambient listening and large language models to auto-generate clinical notes from doctor-patient conversations, saving physician...

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