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Invasive Alien Species Cost Africa's Agricultural Sector a Staggering .6 Trillion a Year
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Invasive Alien Species Cost Africa’s Agricultural Sector a Staggering $3.6 Trillion a Year

Fall armyworm costs USD$9.4 bn a year in yield losses to African agriculture. Credit: CABI CABI scientists have conducted the first comprehensive study on the economic impact of a range…

20 May 2021 · 6 min read

Almost 1 Million Extra Deaths Related to COVID-19 Pandemic in 29 High Income Countries in 2020
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Almost 1 Million Extra Deaths Related to COVID-19 Pandemic in 29 High Income Countries in 2020

Including 94,400 more deaths than expected in the UK alone. Almost 1 million extra deaths relating to the covid-19 pandemic occurred in 29 high income countries in 2020, finds a…

20 May 2021 · 4 min read

ECDC releases new dashboard on SARS-CoV-2 variants
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ECDC releases new dashboard on SARS-CoV-2 variants

How to read and interpret the data Where data for a country are available from more than one source, the default source used is the one with the highest number…

19 May 2021 · 3 min read

Bad Religion announce Decades livestream shows
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Bad Religion announce Decades livestream shows

Bad Religion have announced that they will be playing more "Decades" livestream shows. There will be four shows in total with each focusing on a decade of their career. The…

18 May 2021 · 1 min read

AI Uses Timing and Weather Data to Accurately Predict Cardiac Arrest Risk
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AI Uses Timing and Weather Data to Accurately Predict Cardiac Arrest Risk

Machine learning model combines timing and weather data. A branch of artificial intelligence (AI), called machine learning, can accurately predict the risk of an out of hospital cardiac arrest —…

18 May 2021 · 4 min read

Author seeks to empower young girls with new book
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Author seeks to empower young girls with new book

Click here for updates on this story     DULUTH, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — It’s not too much of a stretch to say that Duluth resident Belinda M. Ford’s writing career…

17 May 2021 · 4 min read

Africa's Oldest Human Burial Site Uncovered – Child Buried 78,000 Years Ago
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Africa’s Oldest Human Burial Site Uncovered – Child Buried 78,000 Years Ago

General view of the cave site of Panga ya Saidi. Note trench excavation where burial was unearthed. Credit: Mohammad Javad Shoaee The discovery of the earliest human burial site yet…

15 May 2021 · 3 min read

First Images of the Cosmic Web Reveal Unsuspected Presence of Billions of Dwarf Galaxies
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First Images of the Cosmic Web Reveal Unsuspected Presence of Billions of Dwarf Galaxies

Figure 1: cosmological simulation of the distant Universe. The image shows the light emitted by hydrogen atoms in the cosmic web in a region roughly 15 million light years across.…

15 May 2021 · 6 min read

No Joke: Pigs and Rodents Can Breathe Through Their Butts
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No Joke: Pigs and Rodents Can Breathe Through Their Butts

Rodents and pigs share with certain aquatic organisms the ability to use their intestines for respiration, finds a study publishing May 14th in the journal Med. The researchers demonstrated that…

15 May 2021 · 3 min read

Italy urges EU ‘solidarity’ on migrants

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Italy urges EU ‘solidarity’ on migrants

Italy called Tuesday for “solidarity” from its European Union partners in managing increasing number of migrants after more than 2,000 people landed on its shores in recent days. Interior Minister…

14 May 2021 · 2 min read