What happens if you need to pee while you’re asleep?
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Racial trauma has profound mental health consequence – a Black clinical psychologist explains and offers 5 ways to heal
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Genocide fears in Darfur are attracting little attention − have nations abandoned their responsibility to protect civilians?
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Can animals give birth to twins?
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If anxiety is in my brain, why is my heart pounding? A psychiatrist explains the neuroscience and physiology of fear
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Trans students benefit from gender-inclusive classrooms, research shows – and so do the other students and science itself
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‘Eco-friendly’ straws contain potentially toxic chemicals – posing a threat to people and wildlife
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With ‘Goodbye Mary,’ Molly Tuttle extends country music’s lineage of reproductive rights songs to the post-Roe era
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Why have you read ‘The Great Gatsby’ but not Ursula Parrott’s ‘Ex-Wife’?
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Campus sexual assault prevention programs could do more to prevent violence, even after a decade-long federal mandate
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