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Defunding the police, what does it mean?

While indeed, some sperm do have the speed and fortitude of Michael Phelps and his 23 Gold medals, a new study, published in Science Advances utilized high-speed photography and adjustments to the microscope to create three-dimensional images

Having left Manhattan several years ago and moved to the NoFo, I found that delivery services for food were virtually non-existent. You would have thought COVID has changed that significantly, but only if you want Mickey D's or Burger King.

In a little over 350 years, 12.5 million Africans were forcibly moved into the Americas. Current events continue to ripple from that displacement as well as the more recent Great Migration of African-Americans from the South.

I have long been fascinated by how we tell “us” from “other,” the primary job, it seems, of our immune system. But in science, the categories we have chosen as our descriptors are now being questioned.

“The breakthrough came when the farmer began telling Booker about “the hell” he and his neighbors found themselves in.

That was the question posed by researchers who sought an answer by attaching an avian version of a “black-box recorder” or Apple Watch to several young condors in Argentina. Soaring requires updrafts of air.

As our national attention has been diverted back to the civil disobedience of tearing down statues and not wearing masks and social distancing, it may be time to bring a bit of data to police-involved deaths. 

Vaccines Might Not Be the Only Way to Treat COVID-19 –– Dr.

As we mature through infancy, adolescence, adulthood, and our "senior" years, our bodies go through many changes.