SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “The Real Monsters,” the Season 1 finale of “Alien: Earth,” now streaming on Hulu. “Alien: Earth” has come in for a landing — and the kids are in control. In the Season 1 finale of the FX series, set within the universe that entered our culture with “Alien” — Ridley Scott’s 1979 creature feature — …
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Image by Valeria Blanc / Getty Images Researchers have come up with a potentially groundbreaking — and entirely laser-free — alternative to LASIK, a popular surgical procedure that uses high-power lasers to reshape the cornea to correct vision problems. During a meeting of the American Chemical Society, a team of scientists led by Occidental College chemistry professor Michael Hill showed …
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For eight months, a 35-year-old man in India was bothered by his left eye. It was red and blurry. When he finally visited an ophthalmology clinic, it didn’t take long for doctors to unearth the cause. In a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors report that they first noted that the eye was bloodshot and inflamed, …
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