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How the evangelical Christian right seeded the false, yet surprisingly resilient, theory that vaccines contain microchips
Conservative Christian groups have linked the vaccine to the Biblical 'Mark of the Beast' for decad…
Tom Porter
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Man Swims 5 Hours To Shore While His Family Clings To A Capsized Boat
Contessa Riggs of Washington said she clung to the boat for five hours with her 3-year-old son, Con…
AP
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Man Swims 5 Hours To Shore While His Family Clings To A Capsized Boat
Contessa Riggs of Washington said she clung to the boat for five hours with her 3-year-old son, Con…
AP
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Here Are The Questions You Should Be Asking About Gun Control
The idea is to keep firearms out of the hands of known criminals, fugitives, drug addicts, the ment…
The Christian Science Monitor
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An amateur diver found a 3-foot sword off the Israeli coast - and filmed his discovery. It dates back to the Crusades.
Just 650 feet off Israel's Carmel coast, scuba diver Shlomi Katzin discovered a 900-year-old iron s…
Aylin Woodward
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A test subject who spent 40 days in a cave for science breaks down what it was like, from weird sleep patterns to generating power with a bike
People were not told when to wake up and when to eat. It was forbidden to wake them up, the team le…
Marianne Guenot
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French volunteers who lived in a cave with no phones, clocks, or sunlight for 40 days say it was 'great'
The group of 15 took part in the Deep Time project in southwest France, which explored how a lack o…
Julian Kossoff
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Doctors are speaking out to dispel the 'groundless' myth that the COVID-19 vaccine affects fertility in women or men
Dangerous rumors have been swirling on social media that getting vaccinated against the coronavirus…
Rachel Hosie
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A new coronavirus strain surging to dominance in the UK appears to spread faster despite lockdowns, prompting panic and a wave of border closures
The UK put millions of people under harsher restrictions, and many European countries blocked trave…
Sinéad Baker
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The coronavirus is devastating communities of color. The Trump administration's top doctor blames 'structural racism' and shares his plans to take action.
Dr. Jerome Adams is preparing two calls to action — one on high blood pressure, the other on matern…
Kimberly Leonard
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Germany is reopening with one of the lowest death rates in the world. Here's how it barely missed a trick as it fought the coronavirus.
The Bundestag passed a new law on Thursday mandating more tests and virus mapping, which it hopes w…
Bill Bostock
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Daylight-saving time is about to an end. It's one of the world's stupidest rituals.
According to the Christian Science Monitor: "Most advocates cite a 2008 report to Congress by the D…
Dave Mosher,Aylin Woodward
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A wealthy California enclave has some of the purest tap water in the country, and it starts out as sewage
From about the 1930s to the 1970s, farmers over-pumped water through Orange County's underground aq…
Aria Bendix
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The Amazon fires aren't a natural disaster. 'Bolsonaro has created the perfect conditions for this perfect storm,' one researcher said.
"There are people, especially among the 20 million people who live in the Amazon, who think: 'Envir…
Aylin Woodward
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Brazil has seen 100,000 fire alerts in 10 days, but it's not just the Amazon - one map shows how much of South America is burning
As the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon plays a crucial role in keeping our planet's carbon-d…
Aylin Woodward
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The Amazon Rainforest is burning. Here's why there are so many fires and what it all means for the planet.
Scientists also fear that over time, the Amazon could suffer so much deforestation that a feedback …
Aylin Woodward
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Daylight-saving time is one of humanity's dumbest rituals, and you should be furious it still happens
Decades later, though, the US is a divided nation on this topic. A 2012 Rasmussen poll of 1,000 Ame…
Dave Mosher
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Bill Gates says a diet 'breakthrough' based on the microbes crawling in your gut could help the world's waistlines
On the other end of the spectrum, rich nations like Germany, Australia, and the US are missing out …
Hilary Brueck
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Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, and you should be furious
Johns Hopkins University professors Richard Henry and Steven Hanke have come up with yet another po…
Dave Mosher
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Get ready for humanity's dumbest ritual: turning back the clocks for daylight-saving time
Some parts of the US have taken their own initiative not to observe daylight-saving time, including…