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UV Radiation Frying Marine Life

By | August 13, 2012

A study suggests that increased UVB radiation from the sun is behind the decline of many marine species.

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Sun Prevents Chickenpox?

By | December 21, 2011

A new study shows that chickenpox is less common in areas of the world with high levels of UV radiation.

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How Caffeine Fights Cancer

By | August 15, 2011

Caffeinated drinks may help prevent skin cancer by inhibiting a DNA repair pathway, thus killing potentially precancerous cells.

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Inside the mind of Fritz Kahn

By | February 1, 2011

For more than 40 years, German gynecologist and legendary science writer Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) captured the imagination of an international audience with hundreds of wildly inventive illustrations and more than a dozen popular science books. The fol

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Light Therapy, circa 1939

By | February 1, 2011

Around the turn of the 20th century—before sunscreens hit the market and the damaging effects of UV radiation were widely appreciated—physicians saw the sun mostly as a source of healing. Sunlit spas nestled high in the mountains became very popula

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