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One in four people in Western and Asian societies develop a build-up of fat in the liver as a result of an unhealthy diet.

Chemotherapy drugs are lifesaving to cancer patients, but these toxic drugs are hazardous to the health care workers who come into contact with them. 

Scientists have revealed for the first time the natural weapon used by marigolds to protect tomato plants against destructive whiteflies.

Temperatures in the Arctic are rising twice as fast as in the rest of the world, causing permafrost soils to thaw. 

With a growing wealth of seismic data and computing power at their disposal, seismologists are increasingly turning to a discipline called machine learning to better understand and predict complicated patterns in earthquake activity.