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Researchers who monitor emerging infectious diseases say that in the last decade the number has increased to about five per year. “It’s our human behavior and the risky things that we do that put ourselves at risk for exposure to these viruses.”

An astrophysicist and a molecular and cell biology expert discuss what we know, what we don’t, and how we’re trying to find out more about how life arose on Earth and whether it might exist elsewhere.

This isn’t Jurassic Park, but it might sound like the sci-fi classic. A 14-month-old female black-footed ferret is expected to become the first clone to be bred for the sake of saving her species from extinction.

Guess which one of us has testes? Intersex Youth Advocacy Group: http://www.interactyouth.org