Following legislation in Seattle, Starbucks has announced that they will work to eliminate plastic straws from their stores by 2020. They will create recyclable alternatives…
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Whole genome sequencing (also known as WGS) is the process of determining the complete DNA sequence of an organism’s genome at a single time. This…
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When I first started working with upper motor neurons, I did not realize that the path would have such high levels of friction and be…
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Today, nuclear energy meets only 11% of the world’s electricity generation from 434 nuclear power plants (NPPs) around the world. Besides electricity generation, nuclear energy…
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Currently, a brand new worldwide consensus is gradually forming: hydrogen energy acts as an interactive link among a variety of energy systems and is the…
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Among the multiple ways to learn behaviors, from classical conditioning to insight learning, observational learning is among the most powerful learning strategies. It allows animals,…
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Depression is a highly prevalent, severely debilitating mental disorder that affects nearly 5% of the global population, and has a high risk of relapse. Commonly…
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One of the large questions in the study of the evolution of animal cognition is why there is large variation both among and within species…
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The topic is delicate (although this already is a misnomer), as most people shiver if they are not disgusted hearing for the first time what…
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An emerging body of research unequivocally confirms the need to shift our diets away from a dependency on animal agriculture, and it is clear that…
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Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs): One in ten takes them, they are available without a prescription in many countries, so are they really safe? This is…
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