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US Case Adds to Unusual Monkeypox Outbreak
Experts are scrambling to understand clusters of the normally rare disease that have been reported in Europe and North America in the last month.
US Case Adds to Unusual Monkeypox Outbreak
US Case Adds to Unusual Monkeypox Outbreak

Experts are scrambling to understand clusters of the normally rare disease that have been reported in Europe and North America in the last month.

Experts are scrambling to understand clusters of the normally rare disease that have been reported in Europe and North America in the last month.

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Mysterious Hepatitis Cases Reported in Young Children
Natalia Mesa, PhD | Apr 18, 2022 | 3 min read
Officials have ruled out known hepatitis viruses as the cause of a rash of illnesses in Europe and the US.
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Chromosomal Rearrangement Linked to Less Mobile Quail
Chloe Tenn | Dec 7, 2021 | 5 min read
The Scientist interviews evolutionary biologist Carles Vilà about how a large genomic inversion detected in common quail affects the birds’ physical characteristics and migratory behaviors.
Study Looks for Effects of Fetal Exposure to Air Pollution
Jef Akst | Aug 1, 2021 | 5 min read
By measuring various pollutants in the immediate vicinity of pregnant women and tracking brain development of their children, researchers in Barcelona aim to untangle any influence the former has on the latter.
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Researchers Applaud Spanish COVID-19 Serological Survey
Emma Yasinski | May 28, 2020 | 4 min read
After initial setbacks, the country’s recent antibody screen estimates that 5 percent of the population has been exposed to SARS-CoV-2.
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Countries Begin Large-Scale Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Sewage
Chris Baraniuk | May 14, 2020 | 4 min read
Researchers have found traces of the coronavirus at wastewater treatment plants in various locations around the world.
Image of the Day: Kobe the Vulture
Amy Schleunes | Feb 11, 2020 | 1 min read
A newly hatched bearded vulture chick is part of an effort to reintroduce the declining species across Europe.
Oldest Known Paintings Created by Neanderthals, Not Modern Humans
Catherine Offord | Feb 25, 2018 | 2 min read
The animal pictures and hand stencils were made in caves in Spain thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived in Europe.
How Salvador Dalí’s Mustache Endured Death
Aggie Mika | Jul 23, 2017 | 2 min read
Forensic experts explain. 
Ancient DNA Elucidates Basque Origins
Bob Grant | Sep 9, 2015 | 2 min read
Researchers find that the people of northern Spain and southern France are an amalgam of early Iberian farmers and local hunters.
Researchers Unearth Cervantes’s Tomb
Bob Grant | Mar 19, 2015 | 1 min read
A convent in Madrid may contain some of the Spanish literary giant’s remains, forensic experts say.
Virus Decimating Spanish Amphibians
Bob Grant | Oct 20, 2014 | 2 min read
Several toad, newt, and salamander populations are being hit hard by an emerging pathogen in a pristine national park in Spain.
Spanish Science Saved
Bob Grant | Oct 22, 2013 | 1 min read
A last-minute funding boost from Spain’s federal government stalls the shuttering of the country’s largest research organization, but only temporarily.
Viral in Valencia
Chris Palmer | Oct 1, 2013 | 4 min read
A genetic analysis that tracks the evolution of pathogens helped incriminate a Spanish anesthetist who infected hundreds of patients with hepatitis C.
Phylogenetics Sheds Light on Crime
Kate Yandell | Jul 29, 2013 | 2 min read
Researchers reconstructed the evolutionary histories of hepatitis C virus samples to confirm that a Spanish anesthesiologist infected 275 of his patients.
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