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Many professions have creation myths about much-revered pioneers. For nursing, it is Florence Nightingale in Scutari, flitting between beds bearing her lamp. For engineers, it is Isambard Kingdom Brunel, driving railway lines ...
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Aug 08, 2019
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Challenge prizes – which offer a cash incentive to those working to solve a particular problem—are becoming a force for change by allowing entrepreneurs and innovators, often overlooked by existing grant and procurement ...
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Aug 07, 2019
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It's Wednesday morning and Brooke Wages is standing in front of a whiteboard, bouncing ideas off her startup partner Sarika Ram, a rising junior at Boston University, and writing out a game plan for the rest of the day. It's ...
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Aug 05, 2019
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Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time.
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Aug 05, 2019
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A county mayor in southwestern Poland is promising a surprise award for the couple who next have a boy in a village where only girls have been born for nearly a decade.
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Aug 02, 2019
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Search for "climate change" on YouTube and before long you'll likely find a video that denies it exists. In fact, when it comes to shaping the online conversation around climate change, a new study suggests that deniers and ...
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Aug 02, 2019
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More than four million Britons watched Amber Gill and Greg O'Shea being crowned the victors of Love Island 2019. Gill, a beauty therapist and model from Newcastle in the north of England, and O'Shea, a rugby player from Limerick ...
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Aug 02, 2019
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In silence, Pang Un Sim stares down at the jumbled-up playing cards for one minute, slowly shuffling through them.
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Aug 01, 2019
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Predatory journals pose a danger that could undermine the quality, integrity, and reliability of published scientific research, a new joint statement from three leading organizations, professional in medical writing and publication ...
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Jul 29, 2019
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When much of Venezuela was plunged into darkness after a massive blackout this week, President Nicolás Maduro blamed the power outage on an "electromagnetic attack" carried out by the U.S.
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Jul 28, 2019
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Several websites are reporting that a Russian website is selling authorships for research papers being published in several journals. Sites making such claims include retractionwatch.com and Science Chronicle—they are further ...
The manager of a sausage factory near Moscow, Arslan Gizatullin says his halal business has been feeling the pinch—not so much from Russia's sluggish economy but competitors vying for a piece of a growing Islamic market.
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Jul 21, 2019
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When foreigners think of Swiss specialities that might excite their taste buds, world-renowned chocolate and cheese likely come to mind.
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Jul 18, 2019
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For more than a century, scientists have scoured the known universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, an endeavor that has thus far proved fruitless—unless you believe the US government is hiding aliens at a remote base ...
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Jul 17, 2019
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A fisherman man said on Wednesday he was looking for the author of a message in a bottle found off the southern Australian coast 50 years after it was written.
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Jul 17, 2019
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More than 821 million people suffered from hunger worldwide last year, the United Nations reported Monday—the third year in a row that the number has risen.
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Jul 16, 2019
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Spitting is frowned upon in polite society—unless of course the spitter is engaged in tasting wines.
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Jul 10, 2019
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Research results on drug-gene interactions are much less likely to be replicated if they are performed by hierarchical communities or close-knit groups of frequent collaborators who use similar methods, instead of independent ...
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Jul 09, 2019
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According to Sir Graham Henry "better people make better All Blacks," but against what standards are the characters of New Zealand rugby players being judged?
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Jul 09, 2019
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An Amsterdam museum on Monday began the biggest ever restoration of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch", building a giant glass case around the famed painting so the world can see the work carried out live.
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Jul 08, 2019
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