Australian scientists have successfully found a way to inject beneficial genetic material into white blood cells in a world-first breakthrough that could significantly improve treatment options for certain types of blood ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 24, 2023
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Whether small-time farmers across the world get swept away by globalization or ride a wave of new opportunities depends largely on how much control they can get, according to a new study that takes a new, big-picture look.
Environment
Feb 25, 2020
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Buyer beware: single-family homes in floodplains—almost 4 million U.S. homes—are overvalued by nearly $44 billion collectively or $11,526 per house on average, according to a new Stanford University-led study. The study, ...
Economics & Business
Apr 26, 2021
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A small Bolivian society of indigenous forager-farmers, known for astonishingly healthy cardiovascular systems, is seeing a split in beliefs about what makes a good life. Some are holding more to the traditional—more family ...
Social Sciences
Oct 16, 2019
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A new peer-reviewed study, which analyzes Florida housing markets battered by hurricanes, finds that affected areas tend to gentrify slightly in the years following a storm: The average income of new buyers increases while ...
Economics & Business
Jan 4, 2023
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When Indonesia agreed last year to clean up its energy system with an estimated $20 billion of help from a coalition of wealthy countries and large financial institutions, world leaders hailed the deal as "extraordinary," ...
Environment
Sep 4, 2023
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Financial markets are the primary directors of economic activity in a capitalist global society, but they also have an important societal role in encouraging investments that are beneficial to natural and human ecosystems. ...
Environment
Apr 20, 2020
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With the UK's new prime minister in office, it looks like the political turmoil of the last few months is likely to ease, at least for the time being. Rishi Sunak and his fellow MPs must put their political differences aside ...
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2022
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The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for research that has helped bring understanding to the role of women in the labor market.
Other
Oct 9, 2023
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Emissions from air pollutants are associated with premature mortality. Between 2008 and 2014, air pollution health damage from fine particulate matter exposure fell by 20 percent in the United States. There are four sectors ...
Environment
Sep 9, 2019
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