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Children who need prosthetics can quickly outgrow them and insurers are reluctant to pay for running legs. Nonprofits are helping out.

They organize summer camps for athletic training and encouragement and engineer novel ways to make prosthetics using recycled plastics and new technologies. → Read More

Grain-free, exotic dog food linked to heart disease

Veterinarians around the country started noticing unusual cases of canine dilated cardiomyopathy, and since an early warning, new reports are still coming in. → Read More

This Boutique Type of Dog Food Has Been Linked to Heart Disease

It started with a late-night cough. "He was otherwise fine, but … something was weird and different," said Verai Ramsammy, who was worried about her miniature schnauzer, Louie. → Read More

Eye twitches are usually harmless, but here’s what you can do about them

Hate reading late-night twitter is stressful, and one of the symptoms — however benign it seems — could be an eye twitch. → Read More

Are Eye Twitches Anything to Worry About, And What Can You Do About Them?

After a day of mainlining coffee and staring at the computer, "relaxing" at happy hour then staying up late glued to the television, getting in bed only to consume the infinite scroll of news and takes on your mobile instead of sleeping like you know → Read More

Hundreds of animals are dying in red tide. These people are trying to save them.

Veterinarians use life jackets and pool noodles to keep manatees afloat so they can breathe at the surface of the rehab pools. → Read More

Children who lived with smokers are more likely to die of lung disease as adults, study says

Nonsmokers who were exposed to secondhand smoke as children were 30 percent more likely to die of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. → Read More

Most people who think they have a penicillin allergy are wrong. That’s dangerous.

If it's been more than a decade since you were diagnosed with a penicillin allergy, you might want to get retested. → Read More

Online dating study quantifies what’s ‘out of your league’

People send dating app messages to potential mates who are 25 percent more desirable than they are. → Read More

A red tide ravaging Florida may have killed a whale shark for the first known time

Scientists cannot be certain about the exact cause of the whale shark's death, but the deadly toxin was present in its tissue. The timing and location also implicate the harmful algal bloom, or “red tide,” as the most likely cause. → Read More

An ancient lake holds secrets to the Mayan civilization’s mysterious collapse, study finds

Sediment under a lake in Mexico quantifies for the first time the intensity of the drought that contributed to the Mayan civilization's collapse. → Read More

Ancient Lake Offers New Clues to Why Mayan Civilisation Collapsed

The sediment under a lake in Mexico contains some of the long-sought answers to the mystery of the Mayan demise. → Read More

The first map of ocean wilderness shows ‘nowhere is safe’

"There is not much of the ocean remains as it once was.” → Read More

Our First Detailed Map of Ocean Wilderness Shows Shockingly Little Is Safe From Humans

The first comprehensive mapping of ocean wilderness revealed that no part of the ocean is untouched by humans, and only 13 percent could be classified as "wilderness." → Read More

Thousands of scientists object to Trump’s border wall

A border wall threatens plant and animal species and scientific research, a new report says. → Read More

Rare asteroid duo dances in the stars

Two equally matched asteroids are circling each other as they circle the sun. → Read More

Alcohol-related liver deaths have increased sharply

A new study shows that young adults had a sharp increase in deaths due to alcohol-related liver disease. → Read More

These American salamanders are tougher than climate change — for now

This research shows salamanders are surprisingly able to change their physiology in response to the changing temperature and humidity. → Read More

Monarch butterflies’ migration is part relay race, part obstacle course — and full of danger

A new study identifies threats to monarch butterflies as they migrate thousands of miles across multiple generations. → Read More

A giant wave of plastic garbage could flood the U.S., a study says

China's ban on importing most of the scrap material that it accepted for a quarter century could overwhelm recycling programs in the U.S. → Read More