Four new reports on Natural Capital published today will enable governments and businesses to take an evidence-based approach to valuing the UK's natural assets.
Environment
Sep 12, 2018
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Although some people embrace the saying "bald is beautiful," for others, alopecia, or excessive hair loss, can cause stress and anxiety. Some studies have shown that stimulating the skin with lasers can help regrow hair, ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 12, 2018
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Venoms produced by snails, snakes, scorpions and spiders contain numerous bioactive compounds that could lead to therapeutic drugs or insect-specific pesticides. Yet little is known about venoms produced by insects, in part ...
Other
Sep 12, 2018
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Quantum particles can be difficult to characterize, and almost impossible to control if they strongly interact with each other—until now.
Quantum Physics
Sep 12, 2018
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The earliest evidence of a drawing made by humans has been found in Blombos Cave in the southern Cape in South Africa.
Archaeology
Sep 12, 2018
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While bacteria that produce electricity have been found in exotic environments like mines and the bottoms of lakes, scientists have missed a source closer to home: the human gut.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 12, 2018
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For the first time, scientists have created, entirely from scratch, a protein capable of binding to a small target molecule. Researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine report the advance in the Sept. ...
Biochemistry
Sep 12, 2018
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NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the eye of powerful Category 4 Hurricane Florence and found the storm over 400 miles in diameter and the capability to generate very heavy rainfall.
Environment
Sep 12, 2018
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New York University physicists have created new techniques that deploy machine learning as a means to significantly improve data analysis for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator.
General Physics
Sep 12, 2018
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How did Steve Jobs do it? What about Whole Foods Market and Starbucks? These kinds of "breakout" success stories show what is possible when business leaders imagine into the future rather than re-enacting the past—a strategy ...
Economics & Business
Sep 12, 2018
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