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Picobirnaviruses turn up in human stool all the time.

The IUCN has run its first global health check on coral reef ecosystems, and the result is grim.

Checkpoint drugs fail most patients in the end, so a different attack is welcome.

People in Ice Age Europe were more connected across distance than their scattered bones suggest.

APOE4 is the strongest common genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, and its damage is still being mapped.

We have been told plastic is chemically inert.

Official records say about 18.5% of the world’s land is conserved for nature.

Prostate cancer often escapes hormone therapy by changing what kind of cell it is.

Nitrogenase is the enzyme that pulls nitrogen from the air and turns it into ammonia, the reaction behind all biological fertilizer.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to three scientists.