JoAnn Pushkin
Matt Porteous
Humans have been waging war against cancer longer than assumed, new research suggests. Scientists have discovered archaeological evidence that ancient Egyptians attempted to surgically remove cancerous lesions, pushing the practice back to over 4,000 years ago.
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Scientists have spotted a rocky exoplanet with a possible atmosphere, which they believe may be burbling out from a magma ocean on the distant world.
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A woman’s blindness in her right eye turned out to have an unexpected and frightening cause: metastatic lung cancer. Doctors in India reported the strange occurrence last month—seemingly the first of its kind ever documented.