High burden of iodine deficiency found in Israel’s first national survey
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Credit: Dr. Ulrike Bauer (University of Bristol) Many ant species live in often highly specific symbiotic relationships with plants from which both partners benefit. Researchers...
GW study finds social media course impacts online behavior in first-year medical students
WASHINGTON (March 27, 2017)--Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences found a majority of first-year medical students changed their...
NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Debbie approaching Queensland for landfall
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the storm early on March 27, 2017 as Tropical Cyclone Debbie had...
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Largest ever brain cancer study reveals new secrets to inherited risk
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