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Cancer-Free Rodent Genome May Hold Key to Aging, Disease
Scientists announced that they have succeeded in sequencing the full genome of the naked mole rat, an exceptionally long-lived...
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Cities Will Feel Brunt as Global Population Passes 7 Billion
To Joel Cohen, a professor of populations at Columbia, whether the Earth will be able to sustain 7 billion...
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5 Books on Global Food Systems
From Colin Sage’s Environment and Food to Michael Carolan’s The Real Cost of Cheap Food, here are a handful...
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The Hazy History of Air on Saturn’s Moon Titan
“Titan provides an extraordinary environment to better understand some of the chemical processes that led to the appearance of...
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Ancient Mud Volcanoes Perfect for Early Life
To learn more about life’s origins, scientists investigated some of the oldest remnants of crust on Earth—rocks 3.7 billion...
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First-Ever Malaria Vaccine Found to Be Somewhat Effective in Humans
The world’s leading candidate for a malaria vaccine has cleared another hoop on the way to widespread use, proponents...
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What Is the Most Important Thing We Can Learn From India’s Religious History?
V.V. Raman says the most important thing the world can learn from India’s religious visions is the doctrine of...
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Scarce Resources, Climate Biggest Threats to World Health
The Earth’s natural resources like food, water and forests are being depleted at an alarming speed, causing hunger, conflict,...
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A Deliciously Thought-Provoking Documentary
Netherlands director Walther Grotenhuis, in his first independent documentary, focuses on the worldwide journey some foods experience to get...
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The Origins of Religion, Beginning With the Big Bang
Despite lengthy discussions of tribal social organization as well as “archaic” societies like ancient Egypt, Religion in Human Evolution,...