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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a nutshell

There is a organization called the ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’ doing assessment of climate change.

The breaking up of the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctic

A trillion-tonne iceberg, measuring 5,800 square km and one of the biggest on record, calved away from the Larsen C Ice shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula between July 10 and…

Climate change month at the Science Basement

October is our Climate Change theme month. This month we would like to give you a little taste of Climate and Earth System Science and prepare you for the United…

Treating cancer using “living drugs”

Harnessing the body's immune system to kill tumor cells. The treatment method, known as Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell therapy involves reengineering the immune cells (T-cells) obtained from the patient’s blood and…

A look at an anatomy class in the 17th century

Have you ever wonder what a medical class looked like in medieval times? Wonder no more!

Can we bring back dinosaurs? – A conversation with Scott Gilbert

Scott Gilbert is a Professor of Biology (Emeritus) at Swarthmore College, where he has taught developmental genetics, embryology, and the history and critiques of biology. He is the author of various…

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