The rooms that make up the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center at Indiana University are lined wall to wall with identical shelves. Each shelf is filled with uniform racks, and each rack with indistinguishable glass vials. The tens of thousands of fruit fly types within the vials, though, are each magnificently …
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Tony Fernandes has gone viral from posting a picture of himself next to an AirAsia delivery bike. It’s gotten customers riled up to try out the service themselves, just to catch a glimpse of “Uncle Tony”. Though he’ll only be starting his delivery rounds between December 1 till Christmas, I …
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Photo by Diego Cervo / Shutterstock.com When people talk about “aging gracefully,” they’re usually referring to physical appearance. But you can also have a gracefully aging mind. In recent years, scientific research has delved into the secrets of people in their 80s and 90s whose brains function well — by …
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Families are choosing road travel this year as a safer alternative to flying. Although travel is down (60%) due to the coronavirus pandemic, car travel has held steadier with only an 11% decrease. If you’re among the many American families planning on road tripping for the holidays, taking long-distance trips …
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The fashion, design and lifestyle industries create a huge number of new and original designs every season. However, it seems that little use is made of national and regional laws to register and protect these designs, according to BMCC. The site infers that this is mainly because of an impression …
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VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now (Reuters) — China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided …
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Long-term malnutrition might at first seem like a medical condition with an easy fix: access to a wholesome diet rich in calories and nutrients. But many of the children on the receiving end of such interventions still struggle to grow. Even when given enough to eat, they end up shorter …
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The old job of custodians was tidying up. The new one is protecting against a killer through disinfection. As the coronavirus continues to rage and businesses and workplaces weigh the risks of reopening, janitors have a warning about the current state of cleaning in the United States. Many say they …
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