Norway announced plans on Friday to invest more than €10 million to upgrade the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a ‘doomsday’ vault built ten years ago to safeguard global food supplies
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At the AAAS Annual Convention this weekend in Austin, Pablo Ross of the University of California announced in a presentation “Towards Xenogeneic Generation of Human Organs” that he had managed
On the impossibility of protection of personal data: Of the billions of pieces of data accumulated on the Internet, some have “special value” and are of such interest that they
Austria filed a legal complaint on Thursday with the European Court of Justice against the European Commission’s approval of plans to expand a nuclear power plant in Hungary. In March,
The European Parliament’s health and environment committee has called for a worldwide ban on animal testing in the cosmetics industry. On Tuesday, the committee voted in favour of a resolution
French farmers blocked highways with tractors on Wednesday in protest of an increase in agricultural imports from South America as well as changes in farm subsidies. Negotiations between representatives from
A team of researchers in Italy found that not only do genetically modified crops, or GMOs, improve crop yields, but they also are beneficial to health. Published online in Scientific Reports,
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) found Poland guilty of violating European Union air quality laws on Thursday. According to the court, Poland consistently exceeded EU pollution limits between 2007
New research has found that postnatal depression can impact relationships between mothers and their children into adult life, as well as have a negative impact on relationships between grandmothers and
An advisor to the EU’s top court said on Tuesday that Poland broke European environmental laws by increasing logging in one of Europe’s ancient forests, marking the latest strain in