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The play "Legacy of Light" tells the story of two female scientists, but left our blogger disappointed
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Why do humans, other primates and koalas have fingerprints?
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Does an obscure nerve cell help explain what gorillas, elephants, whales—and people—have in common?
Funny-looking cells and an air of expectation
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A scientist by training, author Philip Alcabes studies the etymology of epidemiology and the cultural fears of worldwide disease
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Do we take more risks when we feel safe? Fifty years after we began using the three-point seatbelt, there's a new answer
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Female scientists in history, photos and blogs
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A professor explains how new technology drastically altered the modern American family unit
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Doctors once thought that only women suffered from hysteria, but a medical historian says that men were always just as susceptible
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In 1904, several Pygmies were brought to live in the anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair
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