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Half a Million Jobs Created in January Pushes U.S. Unemployment Rate to Lowest in 54 Years – 3.4%
Figures released this week showed the U.S. unemployment rate reaching its lowest point in 54 years—the fewest jobless Americans as a percentage of population...
For First Time, a Fatal Enzyme Deficiency is Treated in the Womb to Save a Child
An unborn baby was treated through her umbilical cord for a rare genetic condition—the same disease that killed her two older siblings—and the pioneering...
Snacking on Grapes May Add 4-5 Years to Lifespans of Those Who Regularly Eat Fast Food
New research suggests that snacking on grapes might combat the effects of consuming a junk food diet—flushing out the refined fats and sugars of...
FDA Approves First Alopecia Drug That Restores Hair Growth in Many Patients
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor baricitinib as a treatment for severe alopecia areata, a...
Paleontologists Discover Fossil Shows That Dinosaurs Had ‘Belly Buttons’
Thanks to an ‘incredible’ fossil, paleontologists have confirmed that dinosaurs indeed had belly buttons—and at the same time set a new record for the...
Rectal Cancer Trials Deliver ‘Unheard Of’ Result: Remission in Every Patient
Sascha Roth remembers the phone call came on a hectic Friday evening.
She was racing around her home in Washington, D.C., to pack for New...
Drug Combination Lowers Risk of Asthma Attacks By 24% ‘This Represents a Paradigm Shift’
About 25 million adults and children in the U.S. have asthma. Now a clinical study shows patients worldwide who used a new combination of...
Acres of Toxic Chemicals and Rusting Cars Becomes National Park After Amazing Transformation
When President Gerald Ford signed a bill creating Cuyahoga National Recreation Area in Ohio in 1974, the boundaries of the site deliberately included a...
New Treatment Helps Alopecia Patients Regrow Their Hair
A new Yale study shows that one in three patients with a severe skin disease were able to regrow hair after being treated with...
This Woman Escaped Slavery by Hiding in Plain Sight – Disguised as a White Man
Shakespeare's works are famous for portraying cross-dressing, particularly for the purpose of dealing dastardly and playing tricks on people. However, his fictions are nothing...
Teens Build Bus Stop Shelter for 5-Year-old Wheelchair User, Protecting Him From Harsh Weather
Teenagers have built a shelter for a five-year-old boy who uses a wheelchair after noticing he got wet while waiting for the school bus in...
9-Year-old Hero Unlocks Dad’s Phone With His Face to Call 911 as Carbon Monoxide Fills Home and Overtakes Parents
After hurricane-force winds hit New England last week, one-half million homes were without power.
Many people turned to generators to supply electricity, and one such...
Biden Restores National Monuments Shrunk Under Trump
Established during Obama and Clinton, shrunk in some places and expanded in others by Trump and by Congress, and now restored to their original...
Researchers Find Real-life SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star
Oh, who lives in a pineapple under the sea... around the Retriever Seamount 200 miles off the New England coast in the Atlantic Ocean?
Well...
Science Shows What Actually Repels and Doesn’t Repel Mosquitoes: DEET, Citronella, Blood Type Myths Busted
With summer barbecue season well underway in the Northern Hemisphere, many of us are wondering if those citronella candles are even working to keep...
Paralyzed Man’s Brain Waves Get Turned Into Sentences on Computer, Scientists ‘Thrilled’ Beyond Words
Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a "speech neuroprosthesis" that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences—translating signals...
Artwork Painted By Picasso Discovered in a Closet in Maine After a Half Century
While it sounds like the height of absurdity to say, one could never imagine how often it happens that paintings by art's great masters...
Diver Emerges Unscathed From the Mouth of Humpback Whale: ‘I was completely inside’
In the Bible, God’s unwilling messenger Jonah is cast into the sea and swallowed up by the Leviathan, where he spends three days and...
New Hope For Babies Born Without Immune System as Gene Therapy Breakthrough Looks Like Cure
An experimental form of gene therapy developed by a team of researchers from UCLA and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has successfully treated...
Every Patient Treated With CRISPR Gene Therapy for Blood Diseases Continues to Thrive, More Than a Year On
18 months into the first serious clinical trials of CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia—and all patients are free from symptoms...