Increasing heat waves affect up to half a billion people
Climate change is a reality and extremely high temperatures have been reported by India and Pakistan in the spring. In ...
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UTSA study: Texas distilleries generated nearly $2 billion in economic output and supported 4,900 jobs in the state in 2020
(San Antonio, June 24, 2022) – Researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) today released "Economic Contributions ...
Medicare could save up to $3.6 billion by purchasing generic drugs at Mark Cuban prices
1. Medicare could save up to $3.6 billion by purchasing generic drugs at Mark Cuban prices Abstract: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M22-0756 URL ...
New insights into the interaction of ocean, continent and atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago
What did the Earth look like 2.7 billion years ago and what were the differences compared to today? What was ...
Chromatin originated in ancient microbes one to two billion years ago
In almost every human cell, two metres-long DNA has to fit within a nucleus that is just 8 millionths of ...
New HHMI program pledges $1.5 billion for outstanding early career faculty committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Today, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) launched a roughly $1.5 billion program to help build a scientific workforce that ...
Medicare program spent $1.8 billion in 2019 on drugs without confirmed clinical benefits
The U.S. federal government spent an estimated $1.8 billion in Medicare funds in 2019 on drugs whose clinical benefits have ...
Unmitigated economic impact of polyphagous shot hole borer estimated at $18.45 billion
The potential economic impact of the polyphagous shot hole borer in South Africa amounts to a whopping $18.45 billion over ...
E-Cigarette use costs US $15 billion per year, reports UCSF in first study of its kind
Use of electronic cigarettes costs the United States $15 billion annually in health care expenditures — more than $2,000 per ...
Cutting air pollution emissions would save 50,000 US lives, $600 billion each year
MADISON, Wis. — Eliminating air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States would prevent more than 50,000 premature ...
Geoengineering could return risk of malaria for one billion people
WASHINGTON —Geoengineering the climate would have massive repercussions for the health of billions of people at risk of malaria who ...
New report: Total economic burden of MS in United States is more than $85 billion
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 4 P.M. ET, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2022 MINNEAPOLIS – The estimated cost of multiple sclerosis (MS) ...
USD $106 billion finance gap in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia agricultural business
The Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) programme has published ‘The state of the agri-SME sector – Bridging the finance gap.’ Credit: ...
U.S. trees may provide over $100 billion dollars in savings via environmental benefits – but face growing threats
The concept of ecosystem services allows researchers to quantify the benefits that nature contributes to people into monetary units. A ...
Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears
With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of galaxies, astronomers from among other institutes the University of Copenhagen and ...
Excess sugar consumption costs Canada’s health-care system $5 billion each year
Imagine if the real cost to society of the food you buy at the grocery store was built right into ...
Ancestors of legionella bacteria infected cells two billion years ago
Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered that the ancestors of legionella bacteria infected eukaryotic cells as early as two billion ...
Healthcare costs of FGM set to almost double to annual $US 2.1 billion by 2047
The healthcare costs of female genital mutilation, or FGM for short, are set to almost double to an annual $US ...
97% of Latin America’s e-waste is improperly managed; Includes an annual $1.7 billion in recoverable materials: UN
Electronic waste in 13 Latin American countries rose by 49% between 2010 and 2019, roughly the world average, but just ...
Satellites reveal world’s most famous ‘mega iceberg’ released 152 billion tonnes of fresh water into ocean as it scraped past South Georgia
152 billion tonnes of fresh water – equivalent to 20 x Loch Ness or 61 million Olympic sized swimming pools, ...
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How to MRI your dragon: Illinois researchers develop first bearded dragon brain atlas
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Immune molecules from a llama could provide protection against a vast array of SARS-like viruses including COVID-19, researchers say
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Researchers perform non-line-of-sight ghost imaging with human vision
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Unique blend of comics and humor is key to success of public awareness posters in Singapore, finds Singapore-US researchers
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Human urine-derived stem cells have robust regenerative potential
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Researchers develop word-score model capable of estimating hidden hearing loss