A UMass Boston professor and his colleagues have published new research showing that feeding on human junk food may be altering the course of evolution in Darwin's finches.
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2018
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Eduard Romanov points to a spot on a block of flats where a major supporting beam has sagged and begun to crack, destabilising the nine storeys of apartments above.
Environment
Dec 5, 2018
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Vienna's sumptuous imperial palaces may be the main draw for the many millions of tourists visiting every year.
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2018
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Roy Funch, an American botanist who has lived and worked in Brazil's hardscrabble northeast for decades, long looked at huge cone-shaped mounds of mud in the distance and wondered.
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2018
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Cuba announced Tuesday night that its citizens will be offered full internet access for mobile phones beginning this week, becoming one of the last nations to offer such service.
Telecom
Dec 5, 2018
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Japanese drug giant Takeda's mammoth $60-billion takeover of Irish pharmaceuticals firm Shire has been approved by both sets of shareholders, the pair said Wednesday.
Business
Dec 5, 2018
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The government of Panama awarded Tuesday a Chinese consortium a $1.4 billion contract to build a bridge over the Panama Canal, a day after a visit by President Xi Jinping.
Business
Dec 5, 2018
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As the end of 2018 approaches, a year that celebrated 200 years of the German philosopher Karl Marx, new research detailing core concepts coined by Karl Marx and French psychiatrist Jacques Lacan offers a fresh perspective ...
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2018
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A new Population, Space and Place study explores how the ethnic composition of where students grow up is linked to where they attend university.
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2018
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With increasing floods and flash floods in recent decades, researchers are working to develop improved methods for flood prevention and warning. A new Journal of Flood Risk Management study points to the potential of an approach ...
Environment
Dec 5, 2018
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