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- Medicaid expansion may help shrink health gaps between black and white babies 23rd April 2019States that expanded Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act shrunk racial disparities between black and white infants, a new study shows.Sujata Gupta
- ‘An Elegant Defense’ explores the immune system’s softer side 23rd April 2019The lives of four people helped or harmed by their body’s natural defenses illustrate why immunology has become one of the hottest fields in science.Cassandra Willyard
- How an obscure sexually transmitted parasite tangos with the immune system 23rd April 2019Scientists are working out how Trichomonas vaginalis, one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted infections, causes problems in women and men.Amber Dance
- Mercury has a massive solid inner core 22nd April 2019The distribution of Mercury’s mass and small stutters in the planet’s spin suggest it has a giant solid inner core.Carolyn Gramling
- Ancient sculptors made magnetic figures from rocks struck by lightning 22nd April 2019Carved ‘potbelly’ stone sculptures suggest people in what’s now Guatemala knew about magnetism more than 2,000 years ago.Bruce Bower