More animal welfare or more environmental protection?
Which sustainability goals do people in Germany find more important: Animal welfare? Or environmental protection? Human health is another one of these competing sustainability goals....
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Mass General Brigham names Paul Anderson Chief Academic Officer
Following a national search, Paul Anderson, MD, PhD, has been named Chief Academic Officer for Mass General Brigham. Anderson, who has been serving in this...
Neuroscientist Huda Akil, Ph.D., wins National Medal of Science
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AZ-HOPE receives $3.2M HRSA grant to support future health care professionals
Arizona Health Opportunities Pathways to Excellence, a program of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, received a $3.2 million grant from...
Adding crushed rock to farmland pulls carbon out of the air
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Bitcoin mining has “very worrying” impacts on land and water, not only carbon, UN-led study reveals
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How mosquito-controlling bacteria might also enhance insect fertility
A new study reveals biological mechanisms by which a specific strain of bacteria in the Wolbachia genus might enhance the fertility of the insects it...
How eggs of the Zika-carrying mosquito survive desiccation
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Synergistic roles of platinum nanoparticles and sodium ions within beta zeolites in n-alkylation of amines with aromatic alcohols
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UH project strives to improve dementia diagnosis for underrepresented women
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Biggest ever supercomputer simulation to investigate Universe’s evolution
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WVU researchers team up with middle school students to study potential benefits of acid rain
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SLAC scientists shed light on potential breakthrough biomedical molecule
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ET phone Dublin? Astrophysicists scan the Galaxy for signs of life
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Professor Yong Sik Ok becomes the first Korean President of the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB), a Prestigious Global Society
Founded in Austria in 1999, the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB) is a non-profit scientific organization of scientists and professionals who are interested...
