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Chemicals may be turning female birds into males in the wild and the phenomenon might be more common than we think.

A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...

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Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system mistakenly destroys beta cells in the pancreas, which produce insulin. For ...

The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made ...

This deadly disease was believed to arrive with colonizers — but ancient DNA from Chile proves it was here thousands of years ...