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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Osterholm doubled down on Dr. Anthony Fauci's warning that Americans should expect to "hunker down" this fall and winter.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Fearing one disaster will feed another, relief groups are putting some people who fled their homes during West Coast wildfires into hotels to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, stringing up shower curtains to separate people in group shelters and...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
In 1970, Jim Estes made his first trek up to Alaska's Aleutian Islands. He was greeted by an ocean filled with furry faces.Everywhere the young biologist looked, there were sea otters -- lollygagging on kelp beds, shelling sea urchins, exchanging...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
University of Washington ecologist Christopher Schell is studying how coronavirus shutdowns have affected wildlife in Seattle and other cities. “I wear the nerdiest glasses I have and often a jacket that has my college logo, so that people don’t mist...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
The NIH has awarded Adler Dillman $1.8 million to figure out how parasitic worms, or nematodes, use their venom to live undetected in our bodies.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Patients with severe cases may produce too much bradykinin, a chemical that regulates blood pressure.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
There are currently 6 reported deaths in Oregon due to the wildfires that have devastated millions of acres, as well as more in other Western states.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
How do physics and space travel inspire musicians? Award-winning producer Paul Epworth finds out.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Pharma giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University on Saturday said they had resumed a Covid-19 vaccine trial after getting the all-clear from British regulators, following a pause caused by a UK volunteer falling ill.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Drugmakers racing to develop a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine pledged in July to ensure their larger clinical trials would include diverse sets of volunteers. "Diversity in clinical trials is a priority for Pfizer and is critical given that...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
The idea is not that those with peanut allergies will be able to eat the nuts freely, but that the severity of their reactions could be reduced.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
The world's biggest carbon trading market faces a major overhaul under European Union climate change plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions faster this decade, a draft seen by Reuters shows. Under the EU emissions trading system (ETS) factories and p...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1, which blasted into space in July, is now more than 15 million kilometers (9 million miles) from Earth en route to the red planet, the National Space Administration said Saturday. The administration, however, has yet to...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
The naturalist warns that a million species are at risk but says it is not too late to save them.
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Dark matter, mysterious invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of galaxies including our own Milky Way, is confounding scientists again, with new observations of distant galaxies conflicting with the current understanding of its nature. Rese...