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Guidelines call for limits to whole genome testing for fetuses
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This extrasolar planet is nearly 558 light-years away, so a real trip may be out of your budget and astronomers arent sure if the sphere even has a life-sustaining atmosphere. But NASAs Exoplanet…
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A particle detector has spotted a puzzling abundance of the lightweight subatomic particles and their antimatter partners, antineutrinos, physicists report May 30 at . The finding mirrors a neutrino excess found more than two decades ago. And that match has researchers wondering if a…
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Guatemalas Fuego volcano erupted explosively on June 3, sending hot gas and rock racing downhill in whats known as a pyroclastic flow. At least 69 people were killed. Emergency officials are trying to reach buried villages to assess the scope of the disaster, but Fuego is already the worlds deadliest eruption of 2018.
Thats a steep rise from 2001, when opioids accounted for 4 percent of all deaths in that age group. The second-most affected age group was 15-24, for whom 12 percent of all deaths in 2016 were…
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Hurricane Maria killed at least 4,645 people in Puerto Rico, a study estimates
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Migraines have plagued humans since time immemorial. Now a new migraine prevention treatment, recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, promises long-awaited relief from the debilitating condition. But whether the drug will turn out to be a real solution for the 1 in 7 Americans who suffer from migraines, severe headaches that often come with nausea and visual auras, isnt…
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Today, hundreds of companies offer to analyze your DNA, or parts of it, to let you in on everything from your health risks and ancestry to more dubious traits like intelligence or athletic ability (SN: 5/26/18, p. 20). The direct-to…
Eager to find more relatives, Diamond, now 42, a professional genealogist in Baltimore, decided to try out all the companies that offer geneaological DNA testing to see what else…
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Opioids have quickly become a major cause of death among young Americans aged 25 to 34, with one in five deaths in 2016 tied to the drugs, researchers report online June 1 in JAMA Open Network.
About 15 percent of pet dogs that went to the vet because of respiratory infections carried flu viruses often found in pigs, researchers report June 5 in mBio. Of the virus strains detected, three have recombined…
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Results from Family Tree DNA, a genetic testing company, helped Lara Diamond find a branch of her family she thought had been lost in the Holocaust. Those 2012 results brought dozens of new people into her life.
Plutos demotion ignores astronomical history
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Some dogs in China carry a mixed bag of influenza viruses. The discovery raises the possibility that dogs may be able to pass the flu to people, perhaps setting off a pandemic.
For a few hundred dollars and a spit sample, you too could take a journey of genetic self-discovery. You may learn some things, but what are you giving away?
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If youre looking for starry skies, exotic plant life and extreme weather on your summer vacation, NASAs Exoplanet Travel Bureau has just the spot. Consider a trip to Kepler 186f.
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Pip-squeak particles called neutrinos are dishing out more than scientists had bargained for.
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The spacecraft that raced past Pluto is back and ready to explore a whole new world.
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A neutron star crash may have spawned a black hole
NASAs New Horizons probe woke up at 10:55 p.m. EDT on June 4 after a nearly six-month slumber, and news of the event reached Earth several hours later. The craft is now getting ready to fly past a small Kuiper Belt object called Ultima Thule (SN Online: 3/14/18).
New Horizons wakes up to begin Kuiper Belt exploration
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In 1918, a pandemic of Spanish flu killed as much as 5 percent of the worlds population. A hundred years later, scientists know much more about how to prevent and treat such diseases. But in some ways, the threat of a global outbreak is greater than ever. All it takes is one plane ride for a few localized cases of a disease to become an epidemic.