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Physically, athletes might reach a point where they can no longer beat sports records — however, innovative techniques and sportswear breakthroughs could potentially help athletes perform better in the future.
As opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. rose dramatically from 2014 to today, both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey, cemented reputations as hotspots of the crisis. In Philadelphia, over 1,170 people died of opioid overdoses in 2022, the last…
Enlarge / Police observe the Eiffel Tower from Trocadero ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 22, 2024. (credit: Hector Vivas/Getty Images) On the eve of the Olympics opening ceremony, Paris is a city swamped in security. Forty…
Enlarge / A digital advertisement board displaying a Barbie movie poster is seen in New York on July 24, 2023. (credit: Getty | Selcuk Acar) This post contains spoilers—for the movie and women’s health care. There’s nothing like stirrups and…
Enlarge / The environment you’re eating in can influence what you taste, and space is no exception. (credit: NASA) Astronauts on the ISS tend to favor spicy foods and top other foods with things like tabasco or shrimp cocktail sauce…
Three fossilized snakes that died huddled together 38 million years ago are now called the “winter serpents.”
Doctors are pulling out new techniques and drugs in an effort to cure devastating brain infections.
A now-retired doctor in Texas describes his experience treating a child with a brain-eating amoeba infection.
In the U.S., tap water is generally safe and not a likely source of brain-eating-amoeba infections, experts told Live Science.
Many deadly infections are transmitted via water, including cholera, typhoid and brain-eating amoebas.
