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New research suggests that nighttime heat during pregnancy is a secret risk factor for autism. Learn how hot nights disrupt fetal brain development.

Svenja Kling is a fifth-year PhD student studying marine biology at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Kling ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration plans to drop its longtime standard of requiring two rigorous studies to ...

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Many Christians believe that life begins at the moment of conception – egg and sperm come together creating the new, unique ...

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