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Five Nobel Prize winners publish scientific article collection for children

Frontiers

Kornberg , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006. Dr. Fred Fenter, chief executive editor of Frontiers, said: “From fighting climate change to disease to poverty, science saves lives. Topics included in the journal range from astronomy and space science to biodiversity, neuroscience, pollution prevention, and mental health.

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Global Warming and Disease

The Health Care Blog

Climate change not only leads to northward shifts, but expanded species diversity, accompanied by shorter migratory routes. Extreme climatic events, more common in an age of “global weirding” of weather, are also more common. Both spell greater mixing and exchange of viruses across avian species.

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Can We Predict Our Ability to Conceive?

BU School of Public Health Blog

For more than a decade, researchers for Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO) at the School of Public Health have uncovered lifestyle, environmental, and medical factors that may affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes. Its goal: to identify modifiable changes that may increase one’s chances of conceiving and having a successful pregnancy. “We