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Photo The vaccine for human papillomavirus, a cause of cervical cancer, has proved effective, but immunization rates remain low. Credit Joe Raedle/Getty Images A vaccine introduced a decade ago to combat the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer has already reduced the virus’s prevalence in teenage girls by almost two-thirds, federal researchers said Monday….
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An F/A-18 Hornet over the Pacific Ocean, in July 1999. (Photo: Ensign John Gay/US Navy) Ensign John Gay of the U.S. Navy had just returned home from several months aboard the U.S.S. Constellation in the South Pacific when his phone rang. A reporter for a photography magazine was on the line, hoping to discuss the 2000 World…
Any space-enthused kid has endured the crumbly, chalky agglomeration of flavors known as “astronaut ice cream.” We deal with it because of the supposed connection to the lives of real space explorers. The only problem is that astronaut ice cream is a lie. As the above video shows, this legendary children’s treat has a surprisingly…
The 15th of 20 seed bottles that make up the world’s longest-running experiment “Some people say it looks like a whiskey flask,” says curator Dr. Frank Telewski. (Photo: Kurt Stepnitz/Michigan State University) In the fall of 1879, Dr. William James Beal walked to a secret spot on Michigan State University’s campus and planted a strange…
coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata After Willem de Kooning Challenging the biological basis of sex and dispensing with the nature vs. nurture opposition ANNE Fausto-Sterling is professor of biology and gender studies at Brown University. In books like Myths of Gender and Sexing the Body, Fausto-Sterling pioneered the application of a feminist critique to biological studies of gender, adding…
There’s got to be a better way you could have put that, CDC. In an effort to raise awareness of and prevent fetal alcohol syndrome, on Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued sweeping recommendations on alcohol consumption. And they got a mite preachy about it. “More than 3 million US women are…
Elinor Ostrom is a great example of a woman political scientist who knew stuff — in fact, she won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009. (Holger Motzkau/Wikimedia) Women Also Know Stuff. Does that sound obvious? It’s not, alas. We’re a group of political scientists who started that website when, as we consumed media reports…
Photo The Cima Dome area of the Mojave National Preserve. President Obama is granting national monument status to nearly 1.8 million acres of California desert that would link existing protected lands like this one. Credit David Danelski/The Press-Enterprise, via Associated Press LOS ANGELES — President Obama plans on Friday to designate three new national monuments…
Photo A Ministry of Public Health and Population worker fumigates against mosquito breeding in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Feb. 2. Credit Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters There’s a lot we don’t know about the Zika virus, but there’s one thing I’m sure of: I had it last month. I got to Haiti in early January, a few days…