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These scientists want to give patients medicines wrapped in silk
54 years, 11 months ago

These scientists want to give patients medicines wrapped in silk

CNN  

CNN — For centuries, Thailand has produced premium silk fabrics, exported around the globe. According to Juthamas Ratanavaraporn, director of Chulalongkorn University’s biomedical engineering research center, silk fibroin — one of the natural proteins that gives silk its incredible strength — can be used to encapsulate a drug in a sac-like form that takes much longer to break down than …

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Mind craft: Brain researcher Shubha Tole discusses embryos, dreams and dance
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Mind craft: Brain researcher Shubha Tole discusses embryos, dreams and dance

Hindustan Times  

Shubha Tole’s fascination with the brain began, she says, with the question of how colour makes its way into dreams. I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” “That’s when I realised that development is essentially creating form and structure out of basic raw materials,” she says. “It’s important, first, that the public accept scientists as contributing, worthwhile, trustworthy, …

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America's oldest lake revealed - how old is it?
2 months, 3 weeks ago

America's oldest lake revealed - how old is it?

Daily Mail  

In a country estimated to have around 124,000 lakes, America is home to the third oldest lake in the world - Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe is at least 2.3 million years old, according to Winnie Kortemeier, a professor of geosciences who spoke about the ancient body of water to the Las Vegas Sun. She placed Lake Baikal, a lake in …

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Women's work: America's social safety net is built on sexist exploitation
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Women's work: America's social safety net is built on sexist exploitation

Salon  

"Other countries have social safety nets. The child care crisis — the current lack of affordable child care for families — illustrates how we rely on mothers to fill in gaps in our economy and our social safety net. Your second chapter, “Leaving Women With No Choice,” starts by saying that once they’re caught in the motherhood trap “it doesn’t …

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Economist Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize for work on gender gap
1 year, 2 months ago

Economist Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize for work on gender gap

Al Jazeera  

Goldin is the third woman so far to be awarded the prestigious economics prize. Harvard economist Claudia Goldin has been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for her work examining the gender pay gap. “This year’s Laureate in the Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin, provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labour market participation through the centuries,” the Royal …

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A fascinating exposé of global bigotry
1 year, 3 months ago

A fascinating exposé of global bigotry

BBC  

Origin review: Ava DuVernay's bold, fascinating drama exposes a terrible framework of global bigotry Atsushi Nishijima/Courtesy Array Filmworks The Selma director is back with a drama centring on writer Isabel Wilkerson and her research into systemic injustice. In Ava DuVernay's startlingly scholarly drama about a black academic and her journey in writing a book about "caste" – the hierarchies created …

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Why talking to strangers is good for your mental health
1 year, 11 months ago

Why talking to strangers is good for your mental health

LA Times  

I’m Deborah Netburn, the faith and spirituality reporter for the L.A. Times filling in this week for your usual newsletter writer, Laura Newberry. Throughout the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’d stayed in touch with close friends, family and colleagues like Laura, but my night of forest bathing was a powerful reminder of how essential interactions with strangers and …

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Tessy Thomas, Gagandeep Kang, Soumya Swaminathan — Saluting The Indian Women In Science
2 years, 4 months ago

Tessy Thomas, Gagandeep Kang, Soumya Swaminathan — Saluting The Indian Women In Science

ABP News  

India at 75: Indian women have accomplished historic breakthroughs in science since the 1800s. Gagandeep Kang Gagandeep Kang is the first Indian woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. According to the Indian National Science Academy, the research conducted by Kang's group has led to practical interventions to prevent …

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Are Gen Z more pragmatic about love and sex?
2 years, 11 months ago

Are Gen Z more pragmatic about love and sex?

BBC  

Are Gen Z more pragmatic about love and sex? For Gen Z, she figures, “people are averse because they’re more… introspective about the kinds of relationships they want to be in”. In her research, which looked at 500 respondents from the UK and US, she’s found just one in 10 members of Gen Z say they are “committed to being …

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A look into the ugly and incredibly personal fight over Biden's pick to oversee banks
3 years, 1 month ago

A look into the ugly and incredibly personal fight over Biden's pick to oversee banks

NPR  

A look into the ugly and incredibly personal fight over Biden's pick to oversee banks Enlarge this image toggle caption Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs The president's pick to become a top banking regulator doesn't usually attract a lot of interest, but this time is different. At the hearing, …

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Langkawi: The curious island of the strange colugos
3 years, 10 months ago

Langkawi: The curious island of the strange colugos

BBC  

Langkawi: The curious island of the strange colugos Vincent_St_Thomas/Getty Images Colugos' camouflage skills have helped them evade popular attention Despite being found in most forest habitats of Southeast Asia, surprisingly little is known about the Malayan colugo, or "flying lemur". Priscillia Miard Colugos eat leaves and flowers directly from branches "They usually sleep on different trees from where they like …

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How a brilliant biologist was failed by science
4 years, 2 months ago

How a brilliant biologist was failed by science

BBC  

How a brilliant biologist was failed by science Emmanuel Lafont Roger Arliner Young’s brilliance made her the first black woman in the US to hold a doctorate in zoology. Marine Biological Laboratory Archives As well as Young’s mentor, Ernest Just, shown here in 1925, was a towering figure in Howard University’s biology department “They’re both working at an HBCU, which …

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