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The 2018 flu season has been especially rough on Americans — this year’s dominant viral strains have led to more hospitalizations and doctor visits than almost any other in the past decade.
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Farmers are among America’s oldest workers. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2012 Census of Agriculture, in the past 30 years, the average age of U.S. farmers has grown from 50 years to 58 years old.
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A well-intentioned government regulation designed to offer healthier options in school vending machines has failed.
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Shashank Priya, the Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech, is no stranger to problem solving.
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For years, patients in hospitals and nursing homes have faced an elevated risk of infection and even death due to a bacterium known as Clostridium difficile.
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For many Americans celebrating the Fourth of July holiday translates to engaging in lighthearted festivities.
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Exascale computing — the ability to perform calculations at 1 billion billion per second — is what researchers are striving to push processors to do in the next decade.
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Nonnative species that are introduced into ecosystems are a growing concern for scientists and conservationists.
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An organism that uses a 3.5-billion-year-old process holds the key to understanding modern-day functions, such as digestion.
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An uncomfortable truth of modern medical science: chances are nobody knows when your drugs are working.
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