A day after swimming in an Arkansas water park, Kali Harding was diagnosed with a brain-eating amoeba that kills 99% of the people infects. This is the story of how she survived.
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Thousands of large farms could be exempt from the Clean Water Act if a recent decision from West Virginia is upheld. Here is the story of Alt v. EPA and the chicken farmer at the center of this legal fight.
“They invented the Internet across the street and here we are just putting poop in a blender.” A visit to the nation’s first open-access stool bank. (See also.)
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Inside a “moving room,” Dr. Thomas Stoffregen is on a quest to understand the queasiness of sickness, seasickness, simulatory sickness, and morning sickness.
MSG once induced fears of Chinese Restaurant Syndrome. Now, scientists say it’s the prototypical stimuli for umami, the fifth and most recent inductee into the exclusive club of basic tastes.
Sperm-shaped fauna invade New England. A sleepless, gun-toting bunch chase down the promise of striking it rich. The story of an elver kingpin.
“They invented the Internet across the street and here we are just putting poop in a blender.” A visit to the nation’s first open-access stool bank.
Inside a “moving room,” Dr. Thomas Stoffregen is on a quest to understand the queasiness of sickness, seasickness, simulatory sickness, and morning sickness.
MSG once induced fears of Chinese Restaurant Syndrome. Now, scientists say it’s the prototypical stimuli for umami, the fifth and most recent inductee into the exclusive club of basic tastes.