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‘People Are Dying Here’: Federal Hospitals Fail Native Americans
Oliver Semans, a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribal health board, at a cemetery on the South Dakota reservation.
Indian Health Service facilities have been sanctioned for dangerous, faulty care, leaving often-impoverished patients on remote reservations without the services required by law. 524
How to Get Old Brains To Think Like Young Ones
Researchers have started to unravel why older brains are less flexible than young ones—and have used their findings to reverse the process.
Telepathy for Facebook and Then the World
With Facebook working on a way for people to communicate telepathically, Joe Queenan imagines who would gain. Millennial job-seekers, perhaps?
Why Big Pharma Is Targeting China’s Deadliest Diseases
Big Pharma is investing billions of dollars to tackle deadly diseases prevalent in China, developing new drugs to combat a lineup of top killers that differ from those in the West.
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Swimming With the Sharks
An exhibit at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C., looks at the underwater world of sharks.
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Newly Found Fossils Shed Light on Human Origins
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Can Surrogate Female Rhinos Save Their Endangered Cousins?
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A New Tool for Neurosurgeons: VR Technology
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A Houston Scientist’s African Challenge
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