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There are few places in New York City that I love visiting more than the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH.) It is one of the museums that every single member of my family enjoys.

The incidence of prostate cancer tripled between 1975 and the early 90’s. What changed?

The desire to detect cancer before it spreads to other areas of the body remains one of the priorities of the cancer research field. Why?

Let the games begin.

When an infectious agent (viruses, primarily) transfer from an animal host to humans, it's referred to ask a spillover event. Most of the time, it occurs when there are close interactions between those two groups (ie.

One of the biggest problems of our hyperpartisan culture is that everything has been turned into a morbid game show.

It turns out you can explain the spread of rioting as well as fake news by understanding the spread of a communicable disease, such as the flu. Both actions and ideas spread like a virus; you need both an infectious idea and a receptive audience.

Three people walk into a bar. They all pick up a strain of Streptococcus. Person A has no symptoms. Person B is laid up for a week in bed with Strep throat. And, person C ends up in the ICU. How? 

When I watched the questioning by CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta of White House physician Rear Adm.

Much buzz has surrounded President Trump's "Fake News Awards." Given that part of our mission is debunking pseudoscience and bogus health claims, we felt obliged to offer our own Fake News Award ... for junk science.