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Atlanta, GA—A new report by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta shows that pregnant women in the United States no longer face an increasing rate of caesarean section in United States hospitals. For many women, this is good news: most doctors and experts believe that the current rate of caesareans being performed in the ...

Bark Beetles Have Major Effects on Western US

A beetle that burrows into the bark of pine trees has begun causing problems not just for the trees themselves, but even for the watersheds and ecosystems around them. According to research funded in part by the National Science Foundation, an outbreak of the mountain pine beetle, or bark beetle, has been ongoing for years and has now ...

Signs Your Marketing Plan Isn't Working

You've created a marketing plan and have been following through with the points of the plan perfectly.  Just the same, you're not sure whether it's actually successful or not.  The results that you're seeing are questionable, open to interpretation.  What signs actually mean that a marketing plan is doomed? ...

Marketing Ideas That Work For New Lawyers

New attorneys often have a hard time getting a handle on what the best marketing techniques are to get their firm in front of the competition.  If you're worried about your marketing plan as a new attorney, fear not—there are actually places where new lawyers have advantages over the old guard.  In this guide, we'll ...

USDA in Preventing World Famine from Spreading

The United States Department of Agriculture announced in a press release this week that U.S. laboratories have found a gene that may be able to stop the spread of wheat stem rust, a reddish fungus that could cause widespread famine if left unchecked. Wheat stem rust, a disease caused by infectious microfungi, has been observed in Africa ...

Effects of Air Pollution on Super Storms

Air pollution is rarely thought of as being good for human beings, but new research shows that even smog clouds may have a silver lining.  According to a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, hurricanes and other major tropical storm systems may be suppressed to some degree by human-generated air pollution. With climatologists ...

Undiscovered Secrets of Evolution from a Horse

It sounds like Jurassic Park—scientists recover DNA from a long-dead animal in the hopes of understanding more about how it lived.  This week, scientists announced that they had sequenced and reconstructed the genome of a horse that died 700,000 years ago.  Their research has revealed significant new findings about the evolution ...

Senators Propose Solution for “Orphaned” Nuclear Waste

Four United States Senators—two Democrats and two Republicans—proposed a bill this week aimed at solving the country's nuclear storage woes.  If the bill becomes law, it would create a nuclear waste policy incorporating both temporary and permanent storage solutions. After President Obama de-funded the Yucca Mountain ...

Early Retirements for Chimpanzees

In a move that drew criticism from some research groups and applause from animal rights activists, the National Institutes of Health announced this week that it would follow guidelines from an independent review to retire most of the chimpanzees currently being used in NIH-funded research projects. While the vast majority of scientific ...

Brave New World: Controversial DNA Embrionic Therapy

England's chief medical officer has given the go-ahead to a new procedure that would help around ten couples in the UK every year prevent significant genetic problems in their sons and daughters.  The technique has generated controversy because it requires creating an embryo using three different donors—in effect, three biological ...

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