
Your own personal forecast: Cloudy with a chance of microbes
Though it may not be as thick as Pigpen's iconic dust ball, everybody travels with their own personal microbial cloud. ... more
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Nepal quake survivors turn porters to deliver aid
Her back hunched over, Nepali villager Sanchimaya Thami strained to make the last stretch of a five-hour trek to deliver critical relief supplies to other victims of April's devastating earthquake. ... more
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Antarctic phytoplankton trends reveal sea ice retreat impact; Ecosystem engineering in the oceans
Agriculture spread via coexistence and gradual mixing; deep roots of the Anthropocene revealed
Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires
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This year's flu vaccine better than last year: US
US health officials vowed Thursday that this year's vaccine against influenza is better than last year's, which packed little punch against the most common strain of the virus. ... more
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Genome mining effort discovers 19 new natural products in 4 years
It took two postdoctoral researchers, a lab technician, four undergraduates and their faculty advisors only four years - a blink of an eye in pharmaceutical terms - to scour a collection of 10,000 b ... more
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New Ebola death in SLeone dims optimism for epidemic's end
A 16-year-old girl in Sierra Leone has died from Ebola, dealing a blow to optimism that the west African country has finally turned the page on the devastating epidemic. ... more
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Italian-Chinese medical team to perform first head transplant
An Italian-Chinese medical team plan to perform the world's first head transplant in China, one of the surgeons said Friday, amid concerns over medical ethics in the country. ... more
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US and and Germany partner in trail blazing biomedical research study
The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) has announced that a pathfinder study is underway in Cologne, Germany to investigate the effects of simulated spaceflight conditions on brain ... more
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