What Everyone Ought to Know About Parasites

Pictures and info on the most common parasites that humans can become infected with.

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Could black holes be portals to other universes?

The objects scientists think are black holes could instead be wormholes leading to other universes, a new study says. If so, it would help resolve a quantum conundrum known as the black hole information paradox, but critics say it would also raise new problems, such as how the wormholes would form in the first place.

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Vitamin D casts cancer prevention in new light

But research into vitamin D is suggesting both a plausible answer to this medical puzzle and a heretical notion: that cancers and other disorders in rich countries aren’t caused mainly by pollutants but by a vitamin deficiency known to be less acute or even non-existent in poor nations.

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Darwin’s Lost World

Evolution is alive and swimming in Borneo.

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