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Real Clear Science 

A Call for Scientific Leadership

Henry I. Miller, DC Journal

As the United States prepares for a new presidential administration, Nautilus and the Aspen...

Real Clear Science 

The First Animal That's 'Immune' to Alcohol

Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience

If a 175 pound-man drank five one-liter handles of vodka in a day, he would die. But when a tiny Oriental hornet weighing half a gram consumes the equivalent...

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China Building Ultra-High-Voltage Power Grid

Xiaoying You, BBC

In a sleepy village on the fringes of Shanghai, China's megacity of 25 million people, a hulking green building surrounded by a labyrinth...

Real Clear Science 

Millions of Americans Hurt by Others' Alcohol Use

EurekAlert!

The risks of alcohol and other drug consumption to the user are well known, but many Americans--nearly 160 million--say they've been harmed by someone else's substance use,...

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Chemists Create the World's Thinnest 'Spaghetti'

University College London

The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging uses that extremely thin strands of material, called nanofibers, have in...

VandySports 

Charleston Classic - Other Games (non-VU)

Drake beats Miami by 11 . . . .

Not sure what to think of this one but Drake has a new coach from D2 who brought along two of his D2 players with him. Well-coached is one observation. The other observation is that Miami does not have as much talent as they have had over the last few years.

France24.com (en) 

'Moment of truth' for world-first plastic pollution treaty

Countries will have a week in South Korea's Busan from Monday to round off two years of negotiations. They remain deeply divided on whether the deal should limit plastic production and certain chemicals, and even if the treaty should be adopted by majority vote or consensus. The talks are a "moment of truth", UN Environment Programme chief Inger Andersen warned this month. "Busan can and must mark the end of the negotiations," she insisted, in a nod to growing speculation that the process could be extended. Читать дальше...