The death toll from a disease outbreak in China's pig herds that has pushed up global pork prices has risen to 1.2 million animals, but its spread has "significantly slowed," a deputy agriculture minister said Thursday.
Veterinary medicine
Jul 4, 2019
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France's lower house of parliament approved Thursday a small, pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook—and the French government hopes other countries will follow suit.
Internet
Jul 4, 2019
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Greece's most famous archaeological site, the Acropolis in Athens, has shut down to visitors for four hours because of hot weather in the capital.
Environment
Jul 4, 2019
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Residents of Indonesia's capital on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the government over the toxic levels of air pollution that regularly blanket the city.
Environment
Jul 4, 2019
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Sometimes disproving an old hypothesis is as important as proving a new one. In a new paper in Nature, Cassandra G. Extavour manages to do both, while helping create a tool that will enable similar big-data studies moving ...
Evolution
Jul 4, 2019
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Medications attach to the proteins in our bodies the way spacecrafts dock into the International Space Station. Describing that process in detail can reveal a lot about how the medications work—and what form new medications ...
Materials Science
Jul 4, 2019
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New funding, greater expertise and wider awareness in the system—and beyond—are needed to embed work outcomes into social prescribing practice.
Social Sciences
Jul 4, 2019
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Facebook said it was "back at 100 percent" Wednesday evening after an outage on all of its services affected users in various parts of the world.
Internet
Jul 4, 2019
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A tornado has left six people dead and nearly 200 injured after ripping through a northeastern Chinese city, local authorities said Thursday.
Environment
Jul 4, 2019
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