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Crece la preocupación de ambientalistas de El Salvador por el interés de Bukele en la minería

Environmental Health News

La Mesa Nacional Frente a la Minería Metálica, una red de ambientalistas salvadoreña, dijo este lunes estar preocupada por el interés que muestra el presidente Nayib Bukele en la minería, prohibida en el país desde 2017.

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Philadelphia beverage tax: Did it curb childhood obesity?

News Medical Health Sciences

The 2017 Philadelphia beverage tax aimed to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and improve pediatric health. While it significantly reduced sugary drink purchases, its impact on overall pediatric weight was limited, with minor changes observed in specific subgroups.

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Spread of Antifungal-Resistant Trichophyton indotineae, United Kingdom, 2017–2024

Preventing Chronic Disease

Spread of Antifungal-Resistant Trichophyton indotineae , United Kingdom, 20172024

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The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before the appearance of the first animals.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

After a marginal increase in 2015, another steep rise happened in 2016 through 2017 before the volume decreased in 2018 and rose in 2019, and dropped again in 2020. Similarly, in 2018 the volume of breaches dropped to 1.257 billion (from 1.632 billion in 2017), but the records exposed dramatically increased to 471.23 million in 2017).

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Chief Editor of Nanodevices receives 2021 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists for pioneering memristive technology

Frontiers

2017 Industry Fellowship, Royal Society. 2017 100A1 Ambassador, Lloyd’s Register Foundation. Prof Prodromakis has also been recognized by the following organizations: 2019 Chair in Emerging Technology – AI Hardware, Royal Academy of Engineering. 2018 University Research Group of the Year Finalist, TechWorks Awards.

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Saved from extinction, Southern California's Channel Island Foxes now face new threat to survival

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Some islands saw their population drop to as low as 15 individuals, but conservation efforts by the Federal government restored numbers by 2017. Starting in the 1990s, Island Fox populations began to dwindle due to an outbreak of canine distemper and an increase in attacks by golden eagles.

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