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Meet 12 Badass Scientists…Who Also Happen To Be Women

Everywhere you look, odds appear stacked against women in STEM. Young male scientists receive up to twice as much funding as their female counterparts in Boston&r...

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Sustainable Development

Researchers Want A Robotic Space Cleaner To Digest Debris And Turn It Into Fuel

Now in an Arxiv paper reported on by the MIT Technology Review, researchers from China have proposed a design for a space engine that can gobble up space jun...

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Health

Maternal Mortality Declining But Still Above Goal

Maternal mortality rates have dropped substantially over the past quarter century but still are not declining fast enough to meet ambitious international goals for eradicat...

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Mobile Dating Apps Spur HIV Epidemic Among Asia’s Teenagers, Says UN

Smartphone technology has increased the opportunities for casual sex and led to a spike in HIV infections among teenagers in Asia, researchers find United Nations research ...

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Sustainable Development

Pigeons Could Help Detect Breast Cancer

The latest species to add to that list is the common pigeon (Columba livia). According to a study?by a team of researchers in the US published in?PLOS One, pigeons have an ...

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Environment

This App Will Tell You Exactly How Much You’re Destroying the Planet

Rather, the primary obstacle to combating climate change remains social in nature, which is why a team of researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ...

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Gender

How Does The Gender Gap Affect Cardiologists?

Despite efforts to increase gender diversity in cardiology, major differences in job characteristics and pay persist between men and women who treat heart patients, accordi...

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Sustainable Development

Bumblebees Are Teaching Smart Cars How To Drive

A newly-awarded research grant from the National Science Foundation is devoting $300,000 to a project to study the ways that bumblebees navigate, and to apply tha...

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Health

On Kid’s TV, Sugary Treats Pitched To Parents As Healthy

Children’s television has long been peppered with ads selling sugary snacks and drinks as fun, adventurous options for cool kids in the know. Now a study suggests tha...

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Sustainable Development

NASA Releases A Year's Worth Of Data About The Habitability Of Mars

MAVEN, full name the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, started orbiting Mars just over a year ago with the goal of gathering data about the Martian atmosphere...

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