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  1. Climate

    Changing climate: 10 years after ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

    In the 10 years since "An Inconvenient Truth," climate researchers have made progress in predicting how rising temperatures will affect sea level, weather patterns and polar ice.

    By Thomas Sumner
  2. Health & Medicine

    Gum disease opens up the body to a host of infections

    Researchers are getting to the root of gum disease's implications for other diseases.

    By Laura Beil
  3. Health & Medicine

    Microbes can play games with the mind

    Our bodies are having a conversation with our microbiome that may be affecting our mental health — for better or worse.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Health & Medicine

    Special Report: Here’s what we know about Zika

    Tracing Zika’s path and its potential links to microcephaly in babies and Guillain-Barré syndrome has scientists planning a new war on mosquitoes.