The natural world has undergone an almost unimaginable regime change, reflecting the vast and growing dominance of humanity on our planet’s most important resource: freshwater. Researchers say this is the first global survey of human effects on the water cycle. Scientists have used NASA’s satellite measurements to remotely measure the …
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More than ten years ago, Bruce Walker was working at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) when he was asked to see a patient who was claimed to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but who was OK , despite the fact that he never took medication. “Absolutely,” recalls Walker, …
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