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New issue of “Green Growth the Nordic Way”: Nordic Networks
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ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: The weaker sex: Male honey bees more susceptible than females to widespread intestinal parasite
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Futurist Update: Evolving the Ability to Evolve
December 2013 • Volume 14, No. 12 In this issue: · Evolving the Ability to Evolve · The Data-Driven Car · Self-Healing Electrodes Could Enable Super-Long-Lasting Electric Batteries · What’s Hot in THE FUTURIST Magazine Evolving the Ability to Evolve Some traits tend to evolve more than others, but can organisms evolve evolvabilityitself? A recent …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Super-Typhoon Haiyan lashes the Philippines
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SIS scientific publication November 2013 The New Genetics and Natural versus Artificial Genetic Modification
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The Nagoya Protocol and Synthetic Biology Research: A Look at the Potential Impacts
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ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Three new species of tiny frogs from the remarkable region of Papua New Guinea
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Science Daily: Scientists shut down reproductive ability, desire in pest insects
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ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Computer simulations indicate calcium carbonate has a dense liquid phase
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