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"Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" by Robert Plomin (MIT Press/Getty/Firstsignal)

Why DNA molds you more than parenting

Robert Plomin
FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, file photo, cousins Stacy Levine, left, and Melissa Bragg shop at a Toys R Us store in Atlanta on Black Friday. ((Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File))

Throwing punches over bargains?

Colleen P. Kirk - The Conversation
Flock of wild turkeys crossing the street in California. (Getty/slobo)

Wild turkeys find new home in California

Nicole Karlis
(CDC)

Don’t invite illness to your table

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
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Food waste makes soil healthier

Matthew Wallenstein, Cynthia Kallenbach, Peter Olayemi - The Conversation
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Drop the "no gender" utopia

Sky Gilbert - The Conversation
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The outpatient mental health controversy

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
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Trump's anti-environmental stance

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/Scott Heins)

Young activists push for Green New Deal

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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How plastic pollution is killing whales

Nicole Karlis
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Anti-vaxxers behind chickenpox outbreak

Nicole Karlis
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How cell phone light disrupts sleep

Jackie Grimm
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Alternative treatments can't beat cancer

Christopher Curley - Healthline
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Obamacare robocall a scam and illegal

Christopher Curley - Healthline
Axl Rose; Donald Trump (Getty/Gustavo Caballero/Mark Wilson)

Axl Rose feuds with Trump on Twitter

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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The uncertain future of coal communities

Sandeep Pai, Hisham Zerriffi - The Conversation
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How Craigslist cuts waste

Suvrat Dhanorkar - The Conversation
The magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid) (AP/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

How everyone can learn quantum mechanics

Scott Bembenek, PhD
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Dementia's hidden darkness

Donald Weaver - The Conversation
(AP/Carlos Osorio)

EPA won’t get the lead out of our water

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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Donating sperm on Facebook

Nicole Bergen - The Conversation
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Dangerous chemicals in your bloodstream

Anna Robuck
In this Dec. 1, 2015 photo, a woman wears a mask to protect herself from pollutants near Tiananmen Gate on a heavily polluted day in Beijing. Episodes of nauseating smog lasting several days has become part of wintertime in the Chinese capital, and for many Beijing residents face masks have become a routine cold-weather accessory, along with hats and gloves. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (AP)

Only some masks protect against toxins

Samantha Young, Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
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Climate change is a game with no end

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com
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