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The young woman who gives me a crew cut every few weeks was required by Arizona law to undergo 1,200 hours of classroom training at a barber’s college.

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Our furry friends may be part of the family, but their digestive systems are not like ours. While some foods are safe and ...

A study published in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilize the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for cancer ...

A 58-year-old woman in Greece appears to hold the record for growing a parasitic sheep bot fly in her nose the longest, ...

People can be particularly picky when it comes to fish, but even restaurant workers don't want to eat one type. Find out which fish to avoid ordering.

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

By Joey Garcia, University Communications and MarketingIt infects nearly one-third of the global population, yet its microscopic size makes ...

Whirling disease, a non-treatable neurological condition with a fatality rate of up to 90 per cent in juvenile trout, salmon, ...