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Yes, you read that headline right. Video games, specifically first-person shooter games, train your brain and help you see better
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The golf course would seem to be a quiet and peaceful place, so why did an audiologist recommend that some golfers wear earplugs?
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A husband-and-wife team's experimental genetic treatment for blindness is renewing hopes for a controversial field of medicine
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How often do you get drunk? Intoxicated? Inebriated? Tanked? Hammered? Wasted? Plastered? Sloshed? Tipsy? Buzzed?
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If you don't get back to sleep, you risk forgetting what you learned, impairing your ability to learn, and preventing yourself from extracting concepts
Though we may talk of cancer as one disease, skin cancer has little in common with pancreatic cancer and breast cancer is something else entirely
Health Checks
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Kathy Reichs, the forensic expert who helped inspire the TV show "Bones," talks about homicides, DNA and her latest novel
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An excerpt from the new book by Kathy Reichs
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