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Not-So-Bitter Pill

Oral contraceptive use not associated with increased birth defects risk. Oral contraceptives taken just before or during pregnancy do not increase the risk of birth defects...

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Festivals

Epix’s ‘The 4%: Film’s Gender Problem’ Docu-Series To Debut On Intl. Women’s Day – Sundance

Based on research conducted by USC Annenberg Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative, The 4% is broken up into 6-short documentaries, each about five minutes long, th...

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WEF Creates Task Force With Carney, Rajan To Study Global Financial System’

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has created a new task force with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and his counterpart at the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, to s...

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9 Economists Whose Ideas Are Changing The World

We’re living in the age of the rock star academic. Everyone is trying to make sense of financial crises and the old economics textbooks don’t work so well anymo...

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Nasa Astronaut Scott Kelly Posts Picture Of First Flower Grown In Space

The picture of the first flower grown in space, a sizzling orange zinnia has been doing the rounds on the internet after American Astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted its photo on...

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Sustainable Development

A Brief History Of Cryosleep

Earlier this month, 15 top European scientists, who study a variety of medical disciplines, met at the behest of the European Space Agency to discuss how they might solve t...

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Health

Regular Soap Just As Effective As Anti-Bacterial Soap

Previous studies have shown that regular soap is just as effective as anti-bacterial soap and with a new study published in theJournal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapyresearch...

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Hollywood

Percentage of Female Directors Unchanged Despite ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ (Study)

Female directors such as “Pitch Perfect 2’s” Elizabeth Banks and “Fifty Shades of Grey’s” Sam Taylor-Johnson scored at the box office la...

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Health

Unintended Second Pregnancies Could Be Avoided

Reuters Health – Most unintended pregnancies within two years of a woman giving birth could have been prevented or postponed if women had access to the long-acting co...

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Environment

Global Warming Could Delay The Next Ice Age By 100,000 Years

In a study published this Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research make clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions...

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