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Sewage Bacteria Reveal Cities’ Obesity Rates
Urban ‘microbiome’ can offer glimpses into disease trends. Sampling the waste in a city’s sewage system can be a good way to study the microbes that…
Pharmaceuticals in the environment: a growing problem
Drugs taken by humans and animals find their way into rivers, lakes and even drinking water, and can have devastating effects on the environment. When Rebecca…
UCL geneticist faces questions over image duplication
An ongoing investigation by University College London, UK, has found problems with eight papers by renowned British geneticist David Latchman. An internal university investigation of work…
Qatar forges ahead with science vision
Brian Owens visited Qatar to see how the tiny Gulf state is working to become a world leader in health and life sciences research as part…
Qatar is a research bonanza for foreigners
Qatar’s heavy investment in medical research is attracting Canadians. For Kim Critchley, dean of the University of Calgary’s Qatar campus, the biggest advantage to doing research…
Can Winter De-Icers Go Completely Green?
Environmentally friendly additives to road salt may still have tradeoffs. Every year, as winter closes in, transportation authorities prepare to deploy their vast stockpiles of salt…