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Gemma Ware, The Conversation
More Europeans are having to learn how to live alongside predators again. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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Two hurdles mRNA drugs face are a short half-life and impurities that trigger immune responses.
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Li Li, UMass Chan Medical School
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the promise of using mRNA as medicine. But before mRNA drugs can go beyond vaccines, researchers need to identify the right diseases to treat.
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Many commercial fishing boats do not report their positions at sea or are not required to do so.
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Jennifer Raynor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A new study reveals that 75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view.
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Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham; Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy
The Ukrainian president has called for another half a million troops this year and his government has introduced strict conscription laws in an attempt to deter draft-dodging.
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Abby Chandler, UMass Lowell
What might appear to be common values about shared political and cultural identities can at times serve not as a bridge joining people together but a wedge driving them apart.
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Steffen W. Schmidt, Iowa State University
A political scientist traces the development of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and how the small, rural state became influential in presidential politics.
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Edward Armstrong, University of Helsinki
The Sahara Desert is green and vegetated every 21,000 years. A climate model shows why.
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Ari Mattes, University of Notre Dame Australia
Peter Benchley’s classic 1974 ‘man versus beast’ blockbuster novel doubled as a scathing critique of 1970s America. Spielberg’s film made its characters likeable – and its tone into a ‘grand adventure’.
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Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian Catholic University
A team of archaeologists discovered the remains of the 16th-century father of modern astronomy, who demonstrated that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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Julien Benoit, University of the Witwatersrand; Cameron Penn-Clarke, University of the Witwatersrand; Charles Helm, Nelson Mandela University
Some time between 1100 and 1700 AD, a Massospondylus bone was discovered and carried to a rock shelter in Lesotho.
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