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  1. Health & Medicine

    Your medications might make it harder for you to beat the heat

    Chronic illnesses and the medications that treat them may make it harder to handle extreme heat. It’s even harder to study how.

    By Erin Garcia de Jesús
  2. Health & Medicine

    Your face’s hot spots may reveal how well you are aging

    If facial heat maps prove effective at picking up signs of chronic diseases such as diabetes, they could become another health assessment tool.

    By Abdullahi Tsanni
  3. Animals

    A risk-tolerant immune system may enable house sparrows’ wanderlust

    Birds that are willing to eat seed spiked with chicken poop have higher expression levels of a gut immunity gene, a new study finds.