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We need evidence-based answers in order to create migration policies that balance
the human rights of migrants with the security concerns of host populations.
Researchers need safe return-to-work programs coupled with an infusion of stimulus funds and appropriate testing.
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With deliberate deception a growing threat online, social scientists are devising ways to fight back with “cognitive inoculations.”
Image credit: Dave Cutler (artist).
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Analysis of bone structure in fossils from South Africa suggests evidence of diverse modes of locomotion in ancient hominins.
Image credit: Leoni Georgiou.
A bacterial plant pathogen could take a huge economic toll on the olive industry over the next 50 years in Greece, Italy, and Spain.
Image credit: Pixabay/mac231.
Viruses harbored by bats and rodents, considered high-risk reservoirs, are no more likely to infect humans than viruses carried by other hosts, a study suggests.
Image credit: Pixabay/Salmar.
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Profile of NAS member and evolutionary biologist Paul E. Turner
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