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Held for 45 years, Nael Barghouti reveals the brutality, exile, and psychological toll of Israeli prisons. A gripping human ...

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New studies are shedding light on one of the biggest mysteries of human reproduction and what can be done to combat it.

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A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of ...