Video: What they don't teach you about climate change
We all know about the greenhouse effect, but how many of us actually understand it?
Materials Science
Apr 20, 2023
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News tagged with literature
Migrants wanting to call Australia home still face significant challenges
Labor and skills shortages have prompted the Australian government to raise the permanent migration cap, leading to a boom in new immigrants.
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2023
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The power of language: How rhetoric awareness can combat hiring bias and discrimination
I first realized the usefulness of literary theory to the issue of hiring discrimination when I came across an article about a permanent resident struggling to find employment in architecture, her field of expertise, in Canada.
Social Sciences
Apr 10, 2023
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Database contributes to synoptic review of plant disease epidemics and outbreaks
The CABI Distribution Database—which holds over a million geographic records of living organisms—contributed to a synoptic review of plant disease epidemics and outbreaks in 2021 as part of new research published in the ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 5, 2023
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Triggering bitter taste receptors could someday treat asthma, COPD
Surprisingly, bitter taste receptors are not only located in the mouth, but also elsewhere in the body, including the airways. Activating those receptors opens up lung passageways, so they're a potential target for treating ...
Biochemistry
Mar 13, 2023
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DNA repair discovery could improve biotechnology
A team of researchers from Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine has made a discovery that may have implications for therapeutic gene editing strategies, cancer diagnostics and therapies and other advancements ...
Biotechnology
Mar 2, 2023
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How the Nazi years influenced the Nobel Prize in Literature
Paulus Tiozzo studied the Nobel Prize and German literature for his thesis. Previously inaccessible archival material shows how members of the Swedish Academy viewed German literature during the two World Wars and the influence ...
Social Sciences
Feb 21, 2023
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Do trees really stay in touch via a 'wood-wide web'? Here's what the evidence says
Trees in a forest might look solitary but they are connected underground by a complex network of thread-like strands of fungi, some of which may only be visible to us as mushrooms on the surface. Through these connections ...
Ecology
Feb 14, 2023
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Analyzing the relationship between olive roots and Verticillium wilt
A new method developed at the University of Córdoba has tested how substances secreted by the roots of olive trees impact infection by the Verticillium dahliae fungus, and studied its effects on different varieties of olive ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2023
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Drug discovery and development—in space
Carrying out scientific experiments in space allows scientists to study and make drugs without gravity, which can lead to surprising results that improve research back on Earth. According to a cover story in Chemical & Engineering ...
Other
Nov 17, 2022
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