How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse — and for better
Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...
Some animals' natural biological defenses could inspire new approaches to cancer prevention and treatment in humans
Researchers have long known that diet exerts a profound influence on health, including the risk of developing cancer. A new ...
DNA and 90 million-year-old pollen fossils reveal new insights into evolution of Asian tropics
In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...
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Court Orders Trump Fish and Wildlife Service to Protect Endangered Species From Atrazine, Chlorpyrifos, Three Other Toxic Pesticides
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to assess what steps are needed to reduce widespread harms some of the ...
National Geographic news5d
Inside the harsh lives of wolves living at the top of the world
This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... A thousand miles past that stands the nearest plant you would actually recognize as a tree.
Interesting Engineering5d
Animal Testing: A Needless Cruelty or a Necessary Evil?
In a 2015 paper published by the journal Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Dr. Aysha Aktar, a neurologist and fellow at the Oxford Center for Animal ... National Institute of Environmental ...
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Swapping Animal Products for Plant-Based Foods—No Matter How Processed—Leads to Weight Loss, Finds New Study
Replacing animal products with plant-based foods, regardless of their level of processing, can lead to significant weight loss, according to new research by the Physicians Committee for Responsible ...
National Plant a Flower Day: Help pollinators like monarch butterflies with your garden
National Plant a Flower Day is all about celebrating the beauty of flowers. Planting them can also help save pollinators like ...
New Scientist5h
What the extraordinary medical know-how of wild animals can teach us
Birds do it, chimps do it, even monarch butterflies do it – and by paying more attention to how animals self-medicate, we can ...
Plant Based News7h
Animal Farms A ‘Cauldron’ For Dangerous Viruses, Says Dr Neal Barnard
Dr. Neal Barnard discusses the pandemic risks posed by farming animals on the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine ...
Des Moines Register5d
National Plant a Flower Day: Help pollinators like monarch butterflies with your garden
It's almost spring! And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help pollinators like the endangered eastern monarch butterfly.