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Cashing in on women’s health

Women’s health has been sidelined for centuries. But now that women are finally being heard, some unscrupulous companies are cashing in on the movement.

Natural language processing is an emerging, complex form of analysis. But a study from Indonesia showed computers can draw sense from doctors’ chats.

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The key ingredient in detecting a counterfeit medicine could be in your kitchen.

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China’s muscling into the pharmaceutical industry, helping Big Pharma bite back against generics. But its global ambitions might turn the industry upside down.

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New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock.

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Not usually at the forefront of geopolitical argy-bargy, the Pacific has recently emerged as a strategic element of securing democracy. A rift threatened to tear apart normally unshakeable regional unity in 2021, with five Micronesian countries threatening to leave the most powerful transnational group, the Pacific Islands Forum. Ahead of the July 12 – 14 meeting of the Forum, the rift seems to have been patched over. (more…)

As Pacific Islanders struggle to survive in the face of climate change, they will need to adapt their traditional ways of fishing to the new reality.

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Japan plans to dump radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean, but its effects on Pacific nations are not clear.

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Stemming global warming and species extinction requires a rethink of the global food system. The risk of pandemics could be the trigger for change.

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It was a few white lines on a black screen, but Asteroids became Atari’s most popular arcade game.

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Spurred by a near miss, the world built an alert system to detect asteroids heading for Earth. But it’s not clear who would decide what to do next.

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If an asteroid threat emerged, Earth would need to be ready. Scientists are continually working to give the planet the best range of defensive strategies.

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