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Study finds replacing butter with plant-based oils cuts premature death risk by 17 percent

Stem cell therapy safely restores cornea’s surface in clinical trial

Could up the game of lossless power transmission, levitating trains, quantum computing, even energy-efficient detectors for space exploration

Health professionals view social contact as basic human need. Now researchers have tracked neurological basis for it.

Study highlights imbalance in targets of online suicide prevention efforts

Accidental find may help scientists resolve which evolved first: ability to produce oxygen by photosynthesis or consume it by aerobic metabolism

Physician-researcher outlines gut-brain clues behind ‘orange a day’ finding

4 trends point to major change, say researchers who studied century of tech disruptions

Researchers develop innovative approaches to understand, target, disrupt uncontrollable growth of disease

Detailing latest recovery scorecard, Ed School researcher urges broader action to reduce absenteeism, sharper focus on targeted catch-up efforts

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Incarceration rates fall for Black Americans, soar for white Americans without college education, finds study

Groundbreaking pangenomic study suggests big DNA flip may have made small bird resistant to some diseases

Researchers place Caucasus Lower Volga people, speakers of ancestor tongue, in today’s Russia about 6,500 years ago

Study finds spike in ADHD cases on Halloween, highlighting stakes of cognitive bias in medicine

Researchers who studied healthcare in dozens of facilities link accreditation to better collaboration and treatment and fewer deaths

HMS research IDs special class of cells that safeguard immunity and memory, and may one day treat neurodegenerative disease

New historical research by economist Claudia Goldin finds link between fertility rates, gender roles

Anesthetic growing in popularity as game-changing therapy for severe, treatment-resistant depression

Harvard research shows 1.7 million lack access to care

Trapping molecules for use in systems may help make ultra-high-speed experimental technology even faster

Study says tighter land-use controls have hurt productivity and innovation among builders, fueling housing crisis

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Fewer than 1 in 1,000 transgender youth receive hormones or puberty blockers

Ed School expert has some ideas, including a rethink of homework bans, after ‘discouraging’ results

Slug’s sticky mucus inspiration behind adhesive hydrogel that can seal wounds in wet environment

Change informed by new findings would help specialists focus on those most at risk, researcher says

Actions by tobacco companies worry researcher even amid ‘dramatic decrease’ in smoking among young Americans

Study finds flaw in key sports science metric

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