2021-06-15 20:00:00 {widget1} Sci-fi movies are an escape from reality, which makes them guilty pleasures and blockbusters. Be it sci-fi horror, sci-fi action or sci-fi comedy, there is something for everyone these days. This season, Netflix has gone all out to make sci-fi a

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2021-06-15 21:00:00 {widget1} This article appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of Discover as "Bloodwork". Subscribe for more such stories. Late in 1982, Martin Yarmush, a medical student at Yale University, witnessed a harrowing scene at a local hospital. A

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2021-06-16 15:47:00 {widget1} This article appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of Discover magazine as "Slim to None." Subscribe for more such stories. Ann was a long-term patient of mine that I saw for severe gastroesophageal reflux disease, also known as GERD.

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2021-06-16 18:00:00 {widget1} This article appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of Discover magazine as "Dissecting Decaf." Subscribe for more such stories. For many of us, a cup of coffee is the first thing on our minds in the morning. It's such a ritual

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2021-06-16 20:00:00 {widget1} Even today, a Viking ship is the kind of image that evokes fear and respect. At the front, you face the high arches carved in the image of a dragon or other creature, while the sides reveal a row of circular shields that don't exactly

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2021-06-16 21:00:00 {widget1} Over a period of three months to three years, compounds such as calcium, uric acid and bits of organic matter fuse together in the crystallized structure we know as the kidney stone. This formation process, it turns out, is remarkably similar to

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