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Inside a covert operation to bombard North Korea with pantyhose and nature films. In the summer winds, South Korean activists loft huge makeshift balloons filled with subversive materials and hygiene ...

“It really changes the feelings people have,” Maktoufi stresses. She integrated play and art therapy in her work with children facing terminal illnesses and through grief facilitation in hospice care.

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Both men and women report higher sexual satisfaction with aging, but women may especially benefit. One study found that women ...

Tempeh, a protein-rich block of fermented soybeans, is a beloved ingredient in Indonesian cooking. On the island of Lombok ...

ON A SUMMER DAY in central London, a 44-year-old woman named Lucy Peel descended a slippery stairway on the bank of the River Thames to crouch on her hands and knees over a particularly intriguing ...

The predecessors of the Neanderthals likely split from the ancestors of modern humans at least 500,000 years ago, and spread out across Europe and into southwest and central Asia. The new study ...

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Lung cancer among never-smokers is rising worldwide. In one U.S. study of 12,000 lung cancer patients, the share of people who didn’t smoke rose from 8 to 15 percent over twenty years. A British ...

(A baby great white shark led scientists to a huge nursery near NYC.) When the great whites vanished Sharks are thought to keep marine habitats healthy by removing weak and sick animals from the ...