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The unexpected science of everyday things
Science is a mirror that reveals sometimes hidden, often unexpected and always astounding insights into everyday things and human life. Here we explore everything you always wanted to know about holidays, food, art, music, books, games, TV, film, education, urban life and crime — as well as human history, archaeology and anthropology.
New courses could help prepare young doctors for the medical challenges of a warming world.
The hair-filled balls were discovered in a 3,000-year-old cemetery in northwestern China.
The new Nobel Prize for hepatitis C follows Blumberg's 1976 Nobel for hepatitis B. Both discoveries helped make blood transfusions safe.
While groups have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the science prizes have been limited to three individuals per prize per year.
The research that won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine has saved millions of lives, but it has not yet led to a vaccine.
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Beginning early Monday morning, Inside Science will cover the three most anticipated science prizes of the year.
The unprecedented pace of scientific progress on Covid-19 builds on groundbreaking discoveries from the past.
New research reveals the economic importance of “wool dogs” to the Native American peoples of the Salish Sea.
These significant advancements could win the Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry.
A new social network map shows a well-connected anti-vaccine movement, now intertwined with coronavirus conspiracy theories.
A month’s worth of cool science stories, summed up.
