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Solutions Exist to Curb Biodiversity Loss
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09.10.2018 |
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Conservation Biology
Is science doing enough to help protect the environment? Following a detailed analysis of 13,000 publications on the subject, the answer is yes. A retort to those who believe that conservation biology, a discipline that studies biodiversity and offers solutions to stop the current crisis, is disconnected from reality, and often not compatible with human activity. Study co-author Laurent Godet explains.
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The World’s Earliest Drawing?
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09.12.2018 |
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Archaeology
Nine crisscrossed lines on a 73,000-year-old South African rock fragment have emerged as the world’s earliest-known drawing following a scientific study into how they were originally traced.
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Dark Matter, Elusive as Ever
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08.14.2018 |
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astrophysics
Although its existence has been suspected for more than seventy years, the hunt for dark matter continues, as physicists around the world attempt to track it down. Or are they all just chasing an illusion?
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The Birth of Color Photography
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08.23.2018 |
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Photography Chemists, historians and conservators are seeking to preserve—and possibly one day exhibit—extremely fragile prints by Louis Ducos du Hauron, the little-known pioneer of color photography and whose theoretical concept, the so-called three-color process, is still at the core of today’s digital... |
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Is Transhumanism a Sham?
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09.06.2018 |
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Opinion One day, our superhuman bodies, augmented with memory implants and infrared eyesight, will stop ageing. And we will never die, our conscience uploaded to heavenly clouds of bits and bytes, floating endlessly in the transhumanist fantasy that we are creating. Or not. Researchers Danièle Tritsch and... |
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Research in Cold Waters
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08.31.2018 |
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Life In Greenland, French and Quebec-based researchers are monitoring the impact of climate change. Their clues consist of various marine creatures such as bivalves and shell-based mollusks, whose growth may be disturbed by changes in the environment. Researchers and divers at ease in extreme Arctic... |
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Shelley’s Frankenstein: a Feminist Novel?
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08.28.2018 |
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Literature Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, the pioneering science-fiction novel that went on to become a universal myth, is the subject of a romantic period-drama that hit movie theaters this Summer. Did writing this novel also turn her into a feminist heroine? We asked English literature specialist... |
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Epigenetics Rules the Genome
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08.21.2018 |
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Biology Identified in Drosophila (fruit fly) more than 70 years ago, the Polycomb and Trithorax proteins have recently been found to act as essential regulators of the expression of our genes. We look back at recent studies that have highlighted the role of these protein complexes and the medical... |
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India: Nature Under Pressure
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08.09.2018
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environmental sciences Can human development continue at this pace without causing a loss of biodiversity? A group of researchers at the French Institute of Pondicherry believes so. By studying the impact of human activities on a biological hotspot in the South of India, they hope to find the key to a harmonious... |
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On the Sources of Secularism in France
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08.13.2018 |
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History In English the word is ‘secular,’ but the French equivalent ‘laïque,’ which features prominently in the opening paragraph of the French constitution has a different meaning to the French today. The historian Philippe Portier explains.
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