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Vital opens on Saturday at the Franklin Institute, and features real human specimens preserved to showcase the inner workings ...

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The Trump administration has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications ... inside the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Food and Drug ...

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and other signals are collectively known as body language. Microexpressions (brief displays of emotion on the face), hand gestures, and posture all register in the human brain almost immediately ...

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The directive could strip federal funding from schools that allow trans women and girls to compete in women’s events. Local aid workers say they are trying to flee Khartoum out of fear the army ...