The fishermen, hustlers and market traders of West Point have survived two civil wars and an Ebola epidemic, but this resilient Liberian slum cannot hold back the ocean that is slowly swallowing it.
Environment
Jul 25, 2016
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An innovative new archaeological study has revealed in detail for the first time how individual towns, villages and hamlets across swathes of medieval England were decimated by the Black Death.
Archaeology
May 23, 2016
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While cholera has hardly changed over the past centuries, the tools used to study it have not ceased to evolve. Using mobile phone records of 150,000 users, an EPFL-led study has shown to what extent human mobility patterns ...
Computer Sciences
May 23, 2016
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has become one of the world's most serious health and development challenges. Currently, there are approximately 36.9 million people living with HIV and tens of millions of people have died ...
Biochemistry
May 10, 2016
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The 2013-2014 sea star wasting epidemic along the Oregon Coast may have been caused by multiple factors and had significant effects on the sea star population and its prey in the area, according to a study published May 4, ...
Ecology
May 4, 2016
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New research shows the sudden oak death epidemic in California cannot now be stopped, but that its tremendous ecological and economic impacts could have been greatly reduced if control had been started earlier. The research ...
Ecology
May 2, 2016
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James Cook University scientists in Australia have made a breakthrough in the war against a deadly enemy of the Great Barrier Reef.
Ecology
Sep 22, 2015
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Wild songbirds that prefer to eat at bird feeders have an increased risk of acquiring a common eye disease. In turn, these birds also spread the disease more quickly to their flock mates, according to an international research ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 17, 2015
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To help address the global obesity epidemic, scientists are developing a new class of compounds called "micelle sequestrant polymers," or MSPs, that could prevent fat particles from getting absorbed in the body and thus potentially ...
Biochemistry
Jul 29, 2015
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Western farmers, particularly those in Alberta, have had a rough summer.
Ecology
Jul 28, 2015
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