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Biopiracy: the struggle for equity in the scientific exploitation of natural resources

Biopiracy: the struggle for equity in the scientific exploitation of natural resources

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The countries of the South demand that rich nations share the benefits of the biological resources extracted from their lands which are then used for medical, agricultural or industrial purposes. Known as “biopiracy”, the issue is a major stumbling block at the UN’s COP15 talks on biodiversity. In 2016, Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke …

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“Big scientific step forward”: the construction of the largest radio observatory in the world is finally underway

“Big scientific step forward”: the construction of the largest radio observatory in the world is finally underway

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An artist’s impression of SKA-Low antenna arrays.Credit: DISR After 30 years of planning and negotiations, construction begins this week on the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the largest radio astronomy observatory in the world. The giant instrument – which will be built at sprawling sites in Australia and Africa – will collect radio signals from celestial …

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Learning Mitigate Genetic Drift – Scientific Reports

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Genetic drift describes the random fluctuations in allelic diversity in a population. In this paper, we estimated that a systematic increase in organisms’ chances of survival in response to a random source of mortality, e.g., learning from experience, attenuates genetic drift (decreasing number of alleles) even when overall death rates remain the same. same. To …

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