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Wildleaks provides new outlet for wildlife whistleblowers
Put yourself in this situation: you’re traveling abroad and notice a street vendor with a large collection of wild animal pelts and products, some of them appear to be elephant tusks. What do you do? The right answer can be hard to come by. Unfamiliarity with foreign hunting laws and governing Read More...
Organic production improves the nutritional value of milk
There are many reasons to buy organic dairy—the animals’ quality of life, the environmental impact, and the unforeseen health consequences of consuming food from antibiotic- and hormone-treated animals, to name a few. And now a recent study suggests that switching from conventional to organic Read More...
Scientific applications bring volunteer work to your computer
Helping the intergalactic search for intelligent alien life, or decoding protein sequences for medical advancements sounds like a tough task but is actually closer to your fingertips than you’re aware of. Scientists have created applications that use the processing power of your dormant devices Read More...
Large-scale study confirms the safety of home birth
For women with low-risk pregnancies, delivering their babies at home with a midwife is as safe as delivering in a hospital, according to the largest study of planned home birth ever conducted in the United States. The likelihood of pregnant women undergoing interventions including epidurals, Read More...
Time to innovate? Get rid of the experts!
Solutions sometimes come from unexpected sources, as an American potato chip maker that wanted to launch a low-calorie chip knows. The problem was that the chips had a high fat content due to the way they were baked… but chips baked without oil taste like cardboard. The makers had to find a way Read More...
Pesticides linked to Parkinson’s disease
Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles have identified 11 pesticides that more than double the risk of Parkinson’s disease—and at much lower concentrations than they are currently used. Furthermore, people with a common genetic variant are particularly susceptible to the Read More...
Cannabis Cousins
Over 25,000 products are made from hemp across 9 submarkets and the total industry has an estimated size of $500 million USD. Despite this, the topic of Cannabis has been laden with controversy. Even so, the US Congress passed a farm bill this month allowing controlled studies of industrial hemp Read More...
The brain: a life-long learner
A new study has shown that the connections in the brain continue to change well into adulthood—and provides promising evidence that brain function doesn’t necessarily need to decline as we age. The brain’s ‘white matter’ is the original information superhighway. Every brain cell has a Read More...
Dreaming of de-extinction
As a young boy, Michael Archer from Australia had nightmares about the trilobite, an arthropod that succumbed to extinction 200 million years ago (fossil shown above). He was fascinated by the animal, once the most abundant resident of our oceans, and in his dreams he found a living trilobite. Only Read More...
Olympic Spirit
Though the water out of the tap in Sochi may be yellow at times, the powerful Olympic spirit of camaraderie still flows clearer than ever. Of course there is competition and differing attitudes, but the general support for gay rights, and the fact that it is an issue for international attention, is Read More...