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Specific trees and large rocks in Africa are like bars for male cheetahs, new research reveals. The big cats use these places to find mates and send signals to other males, effectively making them communication hubs for their species. They may also be key to saving the animals from angry […]

In 2016, diplomats abroad started reporting mysterious symptoms including hearing loud noise accompanied by pain in one or both ears or across the head.

Patients were hospitalized with epilepsy-like symptoms, including seizures and loss of consciousness, as well as nausea and vomiting.

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In June, residents of Puerto Rico woke to a Sun shrouded in a thick haze, and everything outside seemingly coated in reddish dust. Little did they know the phenomenon was connected to winds swept up by the largest African dust storm on record—an event so massive, scientists have dubbed it […]

In February 1964 Roberto Gilbert Elizalde, a Mayo Clinic–trained surgeon in Guayaquil, Ecuador, found the ideal candidate for a radical procedure being developed in his laboratory. Julio Luna was a 28-year-old sailor who had lost his right hand in a grenade explosion. Gilbert Elizalde, inspired by the successful transplantation of […]

Almost every human population has moved at some point.