DRC's Ebola Doctor Builds Trust Door to Door Behind the Case Count
Ebola coverage has been almost entirely numeric this month; this profile asks what response means in communities that don't believe the outbreak is real.
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Melatonin Study Links Long-Term Use to Higher Heart Failure Risk
The study's own authors warn against treating this as causal proof, while wellness culture still markets melatonin as an unambiguously safe nightly habit.
Salmon Return to the Klamath, but Recovery Stays Difficult
MSM dam-removal coverage swings between triumph and disaster framing, and the new study underneath both stories complicates each one.
Lettuce Outbreak Widens to 20 States as New York Passes 1,000 Cases
National, state, and outbreak-specific case counts still don't share a common denominator, and New York isn't even part of the outbreak driving the national multiplier.
A New Analysis Finds the Universe's Expansion Is Still Accelerating
A contested cosmological measurement about the universe's fate gets a public correction, and the discipline is tracking the evidence, not picking a winner.
Wild Monkeys' Flexible Feet Complicate a Theory of Human Walking
Fossil bones have long been used to infer soft-tissue climbing ability they can't directly preserve, and this finding cautions against over-reading them.
Illinois Fossils Show Early Land Animals Skipped a Life Stage
A textbook assumption built on analogy to modern amphibians is being revised, and science-communicator X flagged the finding two months before this week's regional pickup.
A Molecule Reversed Memory Loss in Mice, With a Caveat
Penn researchers reversed memory deficits in Alzheimer's-model mice with a chemical chaperone, but the finding is preclinical, and hope-forward coverage buries that distinction.