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A law designed to protect patients from surprise medical bills succeeded in eliminating unexpected charges, but spawned a lucrative arbitration industry with providers and specialized middlemen extracting payments far above benchmark billing rates. The practice is...

Science & Exploration 07/10/2026 125 views 1 likesScientists using the European Space Agency's Mars Express, in combination with a state-of-the-art meteorological model of the Red Planet, have found that there may be some very exotic physics behind Mars’s most curious cloud. ...

There is an unexpected element of this story that also adds to the picture of how - and why - this region is changing: While the chinstrap population has been declining, the number of macaroni penguins on the island...

Earthquakes frequently trigger rock falls. Now there’s solid evidence marsquakes can send boulders tumbling, too.Scientists mined high-resolution imagery of the Red Planet taken shortly after a recent temblor and found hundreds of new imprints left by tumbling boulders, researchers...

When social and affective neuroscientist Naomi Eisenberger’s dad developed dementia, she knew the popular wisdom. Caring for him could shave years off her life. But Eisenberger, of UCLA, was skeptical. Caring for her dad, who died in January, was...

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Estimates suggest 170 million children and adolescents worldwide are obese. That includes 70 million children aged 5–9. Obesity prevalence in this age group has quadrupled since 1990, rising from 2% to 8%.In 2024, 35 million children under the age...

Assistant warden Tara McEvoy-Wilding said 2026 had been eye-opening and the "brown, sad and crispy" vegetation was a visual reminder of how dry it had been."This year feels like the real first year people have been noticing climate change,"...

A woman whose baby was too ill to be born is calling for better awareness of choosing a termination for medical reasons.Rosanna Brown, who lives near Waterlooville, Hampshire, was advised to end her pregnancy with son William in 2023...

The Great Sphinx of Giza isn’t the only ancient, stony visage in the area missing its nose.A fossil crocodilian discovered in the same 45-million-year-old limestone that ancient Egyptians used to build the Sphinx is also missing the tip of...