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I Found the Best-Looking EDC Knife Under $50

The pitch-perfect multi-faceted flipper can arguably lay claim to several other unique superlatives as well.

Marine Fossils on Everest? Sea fossils found on Mount Everest reveal 500-million-year ocean mystery

Marine fossils discovered near the summit of Mount Everest reveal that the world’s highest mountain was once part of an ancient ocean floor before tectonic collisions lifted the Himalayas.
Morning Overview on MSN

Study suggests Earth’s first mass extinction may have been overlooked

A wave of new research is forcing paleontologists to reconsider a basic question about life on Earth: when did the first mass ...
Family Destinations Guide

The Quirky Curiosity Shop In New York That’s Filled With Oddities You Have To See To Believe

This place is what would happen if a natural history museum, a Victorian cabinet of curiosities, and your eccentric aunt’s attic had a baby. And that baby grew up to be absolutely magnificent. Walking ...
IFLScience

Discovery Of Chitin From 500-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Has Implications For Earth’s Carbon Cycle

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
Forbes

A Biologist Explains What The First Eyes On Earth Could See. Hint: They Were Made Of Crystal

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal ...
Wall Street Journal

FDA: How We’re Approving More Drugs to Treat Rare Diseases

Rare diseases aren’t so rare when you add them up. They affect roughly 1 in 11 people, which comes to about 30 million Americans. Rare diseases are more common than asthma and Type 1 diabetes combined ...
Inc

Brands Are Ditching Purpose. Rare Beauty Is Doubling Down—and Winning

You’ve probably heard that the days of brands embracing social impact are over. “Purpose” used to be the go-to shortcut for earning audience trust and loyalty, particularly from Gen Z who were seen as ...
STAT

FDA unveils rules for bespoke gene therapies, predicting flood of rare disease applications

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...
Becker's Hospital Review

FDA unveils pathway for ultra-rare disease therapies

The FDA has released draft guidance outlining an approval pathway for individualized therapies aimed at ultra-rare diseases, building on a framework first outlined by agency leaders in November. The ...
CNBC

FDA proposes new system for approving customized drugs and therapies for rare diseases

Federal health officials on Monday laid out a proposal to spur development of customized treatments for patients with hard-to-treat diseases, including for rare genetic conditions that the ...