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Health & Medicine

Scientists successfully transplant lab-grown lungs into pigs

Pigs implanted with lab-grown lungs recovered from surgery with no breathing problems.

Health & Medicine

With its burning grip, shingles can do lasting damage

Varicella zoster virus, which causes chickenpox and shingles, may instigate several other problems.

Health & Medicine

Positive attitudes about aging may pay off in better health

Research into the mind-body connection shows that attitude is everything when it comes to healthy aging.

Health & Medicine

A gut-brain link for Parkinson’s gets a closer look

Early evidence suggests that Parkinson’s may be a gut disease that affects the brain.

Genetics

Here are 5 RNAs that are stepping out of DNA’s shadow

RNAs do a lot more than act as middlemen for protein building. Here are a few of the ways they affect your health and disease.

Health & Medicine

Most football players who donated their brains to science had traumatic injury

A self-selected sample of 202 deceased football players, the largest to date, finds that the majority suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Anthropology

Fossil autopsy claims Lucy fell from tree

A contested study suggests a famous fossil ancestor plunged to her death.

Science & Society

2018’s Top 10 science anniversaries

2018’s Top 10 anniversaries include notable birthdays and discoveries in math, science and medicine.

Astronomy

These 2016 stories could be really big — if they’re true

These findings would have rocked the scientific world, if only the evidence were more convincing.

Neuroscience

Fentanyl’s death toll is rising

The ability of fentanyl, an opioid, to freeze chest muscles within minutes may be to blame for some overdoses, a new autopsy study shows.

Anthropology

Buff upper arms let Lucy climb trees

Australopithecus afarensis’ heavily built arms supported tree climbing, scans of Lucy’s fossils suggest.

Environment

The list of diseases linked to air pollution is growing

Air pollution levels have come down since the 1970s, but smog is being linked with a growing list of diseases, including dementia, obesity, diabetes and even Parkinson’s.