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The Institute of Medicine published a report Thursday debunking the commonly held belief that there is a link between the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine and autism.

A cesium fountain clock near London, England calculates time within two 10 million billionths of a second, making it the world's most accurate long-term timekeeper.

Researchers at the University of College Cork and McMaster University have found that probiotic bacteria may reduce anxiety.

Physicists have a developed a "quantum dot thermometer" which is able to take the temperature of single cells

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In this episode of On Record, we hear from Dr. Amanda Lloyd, director of the Virginia Prison Education Program, which offers Virginia’s first bachelor’s degrees to incarcerated individuals. Dr. Lloyd discusses how and why the University chose her to lead this historic initiative.