Health
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Climate change: Why is the 26th World Conference
Climate change: Why is the 26th World Conference in Glasgow being called the ‘last’ hope of the world? Government representatives from around the world are currently in Glasgow, Scotland, to attend the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP). COP 26 aims to tackle the world’s environmental challenges, and Alok Sharma, the conference’s president, has said that COP 26 is the…
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Forget Impossible, the Fungi Renaissance is Here
Fungi Renaissance: While the Impossible and Beyond burgers are getting all the attention, a far more basic dish is set to lead the next wave of alternative proteins. Alternative proteins are gaining popularity. Plant-based burgers, bacon, sausages, and their imaginatively titled brethren: chickens, mylks, and cheeses abound on supermarket chiller shelves. The sale of meat alternatives in the UK increased…
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The Contraceptive Pill’s Untold Story
Frustrated by a lack of knowledge about birth control, Alice Pelton developed The Lowdown, a contraception review platform and resource maintained by women for women. ALICE PELTON WAS 16 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE TOOK THE PILL FOR THE FIRST TIME. Like many teenagers, she was terrified of becoming pregnant, so taking a course on the combination hormonal contraceptive pill, as…
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Artificial Intelligence in the Battle Against Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which has been held every October for the past four decades, has helped to raise awareness and sensitization about the world’s most common cancer condition (which claims over three-quarters of a million lives each year). Regardless of documented examples dating back to ancient Egypt, breast cancer was deemed a “unspeakable” illness in which women were expected…
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Carbon is sucked out of the atmosphere by direct air capture.
Carbon is sucked out of the atmosphere by direct air capture. Climeworks opened Iceland’s largest carbon capture plant this year, but it’s not a panacea for reducing emissions. Changemakers in the Climate These individuals and projects are taking on the climate crisis full on. When Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher decided to start a firm based on technology that might…
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