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Our vaccines are clean

Tags: Medicine

A test with a number of traditional vaccines show that there are indeed very little contaminating viruses in them, if any at all.

Brain-training games get a D at brain-training tests

Brain training games do not appear to improve general cognitive skills given a play time of weeks.

Happy 20th anniversary, Hubble!

Tags: Space

It is the 20th anniversary since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA’s Asteroid Mission: Scary but Useful

Tags: Space

The White House outlines changes to long-term plans for NASA concerning space exploration.

Social Factors in Autism Diagnosis

Tags: Medicine

The risk of being diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder may correlate with social proximity to another family with a child with an ASD diagnosis.

Blood donations: religious and non-religious are equally generous

According to a new analysis of data from the US National Survey of Family Growth, there is no relationship between giving blood any facet of religiosity.

Williams syndrome children show no racial stereotypes or social fear

People with Williams syndrome are some of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet, and they appear to lack a racial bias.

Photos of sneezing can put our immune systems on red alert

When we see images of diseases and their symptoms, we typically feel disgust and repulsion. But unbeknownst to us, our immune systems have started reacting too.

Eat your fruit and veggies?

Tags: Medicine

While eating fruits and vegetables might reduce the overall risk of cancer, the reduction is not as dramatic as certain previous studies may have suggested. It still appears that there is a significant reduction in cardiovascular risk.

Pigeons outperform humans at the Monty Hall Dilemma

Humans are spectacularly bad with thinking about the Monty Hall problem and perform worse than pigeons.

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