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Chemicals may be turning female birds into males in the wild and the phenomenon might be more common than we think.

A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...

“These weren’t modest differences,” said Adam D. Gordon, an anthropologist at the University at Albany and lead author of the ...

Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system mistakenly destroys beta cells in the pancreas, which produce insulin. For ...