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Health researchers are investigating whether the enterovirus-68 respiratory disease that's been seen in especially high rates this year is related to a neurological condition that causes limb weakness and paralysis. In a...

Intergalactic visitors threaten to bring chaos to our electronic world. Is there anything we can do? (full text available to subscribers)

Jason Silva calls technologies of media "engines of empathy." They allow us to look through someone else's eyes, experience someone else's story--and develop a sense of compassion and understanding for them, and perhaps ...