A controversial treatment offers a painless route to ridding veterans of their trauma responses. But does it really work?

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In 1925, a teacher deliberately broke a law stating that evolution could not be taught in Tennessee classrooms. His trial ...

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Karmella Haynes doesn’t need to fit in—in life or in work. So when a research space didn’t exist for her, she created it.

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With cameras down their throats, metal singers show how they produce growls, screams, and squeals without damaging their vocal tissues.

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