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President Biden proposed an ambitious budget for the next federal fiscal year that includes more money for fighting the opioid…
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In late January, the multibillionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter and abruptly announced, “Am donating $100M towards a prize for…
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Two federal health agencies intend to scrutinize connection between two hot-button health issues. Toxic PFAS chemicals have been detected at…
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Pioneering research led by experts from the University of Exeter’s Living Systems Institute has provided new insight into formation of…
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A broad coalition of landowners, conservation advocates and First Nations community members has requested Minister of Environment and Climate Change…
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Powerful algorithms used by Netflix, Amazon and Facebook can ‘predict’ the biological language of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s,…
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The full assembly of human chromosome 8 is reported this week in Nature. While on the outside this chromosome looks…
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