{
  "id": 1463758,
  "title": "The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/the-scientist-who-lived-with-dozens-of-children-from-the-pacific",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-17T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New Yorker",
    "slug": "the-new-yorker",
    "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/24/the-scientist-who-lived-with-dozens-of-children-from-the-south-pacific"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.",
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  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}