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When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS ...

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The June heat dome contributed to the deaths of at least three people. They have died as federal regulators have weighed ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...