How a Tourette’s Diagnosis Helped Me Understand Who I Am
I long resisted looking for the cause of my tics. Then I received a diagnosis that changed everything
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The Russian Flu: Was a Nineteenth-Century Outbreak Actually the Result of a Coronavirus?
Leading scientists are looking to history to see if coronavirus epidemics have been hiding in plain sight
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Take Two Shrooms and Call Me in the Morning: The Medical Promise of Magic Mushrooms
Psilocybin can treat depression, alcoholism, PTSD, and even cluster headaches. Why is it still illegal?
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The Pigeon Puzzle: How Do They Figure Out Their Impossibly Long Routes Home?
You might consider them flying rats, but their odysseys stump scientists
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New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease: Why Did the Province Shut Out Federal Experts?
The provincial government’s closed-door investigation has confused experts, stoked fears, and missed an opportunity to solve a possible new brain disorder
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Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts
Smell is often dismissed as the least important sense. But it’s the funk that draws us together
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Same Vaccine, Different Effects: Why Women Are Feeling Worse after the Jab
For decades, researchers have been conducting flawed clinical trials. The COVID-19 vaccine was no different
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Affected Development: Will Kids Ever Recover from Isolation?
For many children, our panicked pandemic lives are the only lives they’ve ever known
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What Happens to Our Brains When We Get Depressed?
The human brain, in all its complexity, is nearly impossible to model. One neuroscientist is trying anyway
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