Erin

Erin

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What pathogen might spark the next pandemic? How scientists are preparing for ‘disease X’

What pathogen might spark the next pandemic? How scientists are preparing for ‘disease X’

Continued surveillance for new pathogens, improving our understanding of important...

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How the ‘social cost of carbon’ measurement can hide economic inequalities and mask climate suffering

How the ‘social cost of carbon’ measurement can hide economic inequalities and mask climate suffering

SCC is essentially a large cost-benefit calculation that helps policymakers compare...

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How can we improve public health communication for the next pandemic? Tackling distrust and misinformation is key

How can we improve public health communication for the next pandemic? Tackling distrust and misinformation is key

From the black death in the 14th century to COVID in the 21st, public health authorities...

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How profits from big pharma’s use of genetic information could revolutionise nature conservation

How profits from big pharma’s use of genetic information could revolutionise nature conservation

Advances in technology now allow the rapid sequencing and sharing of genetic data,...

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Trying to lose weight? Here’s why your genetics could be just as important as your exercise regime

Trying to lose weight? Here’s why your genetics could be just as important as your exercise regime

Weight loss is a complicated process. There are so many factors involved including...

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Fall is here: Why do some trees lose their leaves while others stay green?

Fall is here: Why do some trees lose their leaves while others stay green?

The autumn has arrived and northeastern North America’s forests will soon grace...

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Why are we seeing more pandemics? Our impact on the planet has a lot to do with it

Why are we seeing more pandemics? Our impact on the planet has a lot to do with it

Pandemics – the global spread of infectious diseases – seem to be making a comeback....

Society
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Socially distanced layout of the world’s oldest cities helped early civilization evade diseases

Socially distanced layout of the world’s oldest cities helped early civilization evade diseases

These early cities, along with those in China, Africa and the Americas, were the...

Health
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An unbroken night’s sleep is a myth. Here’s what good sleep looks like

An unbroken night’s sleep is a myth. Here’s what good sleep looks like

What do you imagine a good night’s sleep to be?

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Three letters, one number, a knife and a stone bridge: how a graffitied equation changed mathematical history

Three letters, one number, a knife and a stone bridge: how a graffitied equation changed mathematical history

On October 16 1843, the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton had an epiphany...

Technology
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AI affects everyone – including Indigenous people. It’s time we have a say in how it’s built

AI affects everyone – including Indigenous people. It’s time we have a say in how it’s built

Since artificial intelligence (AI) became mainstream over the past two years, many...

Research
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Rain may have helped form the first cells, kick-starting life as we know it

Rain may have helped form the first cells, kick-starting life as we know it

One of the most intriguing questions in science is how life began on Earth

Research
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Meet the microbes that transform toxic carbon monoxide into valuable biofuel

Meet the microbes that transform toxic carbon monoxide into valuable biofuel

Microbes are hungry. All the time. And they live everywhere, in enormous numbers

Politics
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UN peacekeepers at risk as they deliver protection for civilians in southern Lebanon

UN peacekeepers at risk as they deliver protection for civilians in southern Lebanon

While Unifil may not be able to prevent the bloodshed, for now it can continue help...

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