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  1. Health & Medicine

    Some common medical terms may be more confusing than doctors think

    Got ‘bugs in your urine’ or an ‘impressive’ X-ray? Doctors’ jargon can be confusing, especially terms with different everyday and medical meanings.

    By Meghan Rosen
  2. Animals

    Scientists thought snakes didn’t have clitorises. They were wrong

    Snakes were long thought to be the only reptile group to lack clitorises. But new findings suggest the sex organs are present after all.

    By Jake Buehler
  3. Earth

    The Hunga Tonga volcano eruption touched space and spawned a lightning blitz

    The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the Pacific Ocean earlier this year was one for the record books — in several surprising ways.