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A sharp debate over religious exemptions to school vaccine mandates is intensifying across the nation, just as vaccination rates of schoolchildren are declining and childhood diseases…

Update: After this story was published, an updated draft agenda for the ACIP meeting was posted. According to the schedule, the committee will no longer consider…

Kate Price is now an academic, but it was at six that she conducted her first piece of research, leaning into the cab of her father’s…

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It’s a mystery that has long puzzled researchers. Freud called the phenomenon infantile amnesia, and for many years scientists have wondered whether it’s a result of…

“Pac-Man [the character] was designed to represent the core concept of the game, ‘to eat’, in the simplest way possible,” Michiko Kumagai, the licensing manager for…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.One common explanation for why children spend so much of…

Yvonne Hughes was 19, and attending the funeral of a friend with cystic fibrosis, when she realised: “Oh shit, I’m going to die of this.” She…