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Thinking green, and thinking big Six faculty share transformative ideas for sustainability Photos by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer /At the first Harvard Thinks Green, six Harvard professors gathered at Sanders Theatre to provide just that kind of thinking. They included Eric Chivian (from right), Rebecca Henderson, Christoph Reinhart, Robert Kaplan, Richard Lazarus, and James McCarthy. […]
Loss of mountain forests would unleash serious socio-economic effects – UN The loss of mountain forests sparked by increasing temperatures and population growth would have serious socio-economic and environmental consequences, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today, calling on governments to increase their efforts to protect them and incorporate them into their […]
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ACT against corruption Act against Corruption. Promote the MDGs. Corruption is a serious crime that can undermine social and economic development in all societies. No country, region or community is immune. This year UNODC and UNDP have developed a joint global campaign, focusing on how corruption hinders efforts to achieve the internationally agreed upon Millennium […]
Traumatic injury sets off a ‘genomic storm’ New research overturns longstanding assumption “Burn patients may take months to years to recover from their injuries, while trauma patients who are going to recover usually do so within a month. So it was entirely unexpected that gene expression patterns in burns and trauma patients changed in exactly […]
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Time to fight back against ‘cancer’ of corruption – UN chief No country, region or community is immune to corruption, a serious crime that can undermine social and economic development in all societies Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging everyone to do their part to stamp out corruption, which afflicts all countries, undermining social progress and breeding […]
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Researchers find best routes to self-assembling 3-D shapes Researchers at Brown and Johns Hopkins universities have found optimal configurations for creating 3-D geometric shapes — like tiny, highly simplified geodesic domes that assemble by themselves. The Brown team developed the algorithmic tools, and the Johns Hopkins team tested selected configurations. The research may lead to […]
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Three professors named AAAS fellows Barry Connors, Diane Lipscombe, and David Rand have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They will be officially welcomed as fellows on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Three members of the Brown University […]
Gene expression study made easy: Just sequence all of it Next-generation sequencers / Eric Morrow, postdoctoral scholar Ece Gamsiz, and colleagues have sequenced the entire “transcriptome” of the mouse neural retina. They used “game-changing” technology that would have been prohibitively expensive even five years ago./Credit: Mike Cohea/Brown University In a new study, researchers have gained new insights into neural […]
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Good or bad: Surprises drive learning in same neural circuits Neurosurgeons hoping to find ways to accelerate re-learning after a stroke or brain injury are trying to tease out the circuitry that governs learning. A new study of how the brain processes unexpected events found that neurons in two important structures handle both positive and […]
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Kids: Getting to the Heart of the Matter The brisk woosh-woosh-woosh of a baby’s heart is music to a pregnant mom’s ears. But once outside the womb, an all-out assault begins: American culture (and the rising tides of childhood obesity) is poised and ready to threaten that beautiful beating. Maybe it’s the inescapable screens (TVs, iPads, DXs, cell […]
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