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To screen for MERS, an official at South Korea's customs gate checks the body heat of a worker arriving from North Korea.

North Korea Announces Cure For MERS (As If)

The drug can also allegedly wipe out AIDS and TB and just about every other disease. The state-run media announced the news, so exaggeration is to be expected.

U.S. Military Can Now Call Home for Free with Gmail

A medical staff member wearing a protective suit waits to enter an isolation ward for patients with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, MERS, in South Korea.

MERS Is A Health Crisis With Political And Economic Costs

After a bungled initial response to the virus, South Korea's president not only has to win back public trust, but leaders are scrambling to keep the prized South Korean economy from struggling.

New Research Suggests Lung Cancer Spreads Like Info On The Web

What does lung cancer have in common with how people navigate to certain websites? Plenty, says a new study.

Comedian Aziz Ansari, seen here performing a show last year, has written a book about love — and what people really want.

#NPRreads: Love, Coding, Yuccies, And The 'NPR Sound'

This week's selection of articles and essays covers comedian Aziz Ansari's new book about love, a new demographic term, a global gaming superstar, and more.

#NPRreads: In Defense Of California And Wearing The Same Thing To Work Daily

This week, we highlight an Internet confessional of a woman who decided to do like men: wear the same outfit to work every day. We also baseball and fancy food at schools.

A blended learning classroom at David Boody Jr. High School in New York City.

Meet The Classroom Of The Future

When a computer runs a classroom, is it more efficient? Do kids learn more? A middle school in New York is finding out.

In front of the emergency room at the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, medical workers care for a man suspected of having the Middle Respiratory syndrome on Monday.

As MERS Outbreak Surges, Genetic Tests Show Virus Hasn't Mutated

So the spread of the Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea is probably due to other factors, such as a delayed response to the outbreak and poor infection control at hospitals.

Hall H is easy to clear out when you have Stormtroopers to help and a surprise Star Wars concert to get to. LucasFilm proved that fans do matter to them with a great Hall H panel and concert that followed. July 10, 2015.

The Imperfect Perfection Of Comic-Con

Kaijus in jail, Lumberjanes, and Popeye the Sailor Moon

New History Puts Cartographers' Art 'On The Map'

Maps do more than help us get around, Simon Garfield makes evident in his tour through the history and science of map-making. They can unlock vast wealth, solve mysteries of science, project political power — even trace the outlines of the divine.

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