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  • Millipedes make ants dizzy — and might soon treat human pain

    Millipedes make ants dizzy — and might soon treat human pain

    Millipedes get a bad rap — their many legs put people off and could classify them as “creepy crawly.” But these anthropods’ secretions could hold the key to new drug discovery for the treatment of neurological diseases and pain.

    Chemist Emily…

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  • The plant virus that trains your immune system to kill cancer

    The plant virus that trains your immune system to kill cancer

    A virus that typically infects black-eyed peas is showing great promise as a low-cost, potent cancer immunotherapy — and researchers are uncovering why.

    In a study published in Cell Biomaterials, a team led by chemical and nano engineers at the…

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  • Google’s deepfake hunter sees what you can’t—even in videos without faces

    Google’s deepfake hunter sees what you can’t—even in videos without faces

    In an era where manipulated videos can spread disinformation, bully people, and incite harm, UC Riverside researchers have created a powerful new system to expose these fakes.

    Amit Roy-Chowdhury, a professor of electrical and computer…

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  • Soil acidity remediation in sub-Saharan Africa requires targeted investments

    Soil acidity remediation in sub-Saharan Africa requires targeted investments

  • Sánchez, P. A. Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics Ch. 9 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019).

  • Sánchez, P. A. & Salinas, J. G. Low-input technology for managing Oxisols and Ultisols in tropical America. Adv. Agron.

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  • Empowering China’s cross-border e-commerce: high-quality development explored through fsQCA

    Empowering China’s cross-border e-commerce: high-quality development explored through fsQCA

    Necessary condition analysis

    Necessity condition analysis determines the conditions necessary for the outcome (Fiss, 2011). Ragin and Strand (2008) proposed that consistency, which refers to the uniformity of relationships between conditions and…

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  • Why food systems governance must be grounded in human rights

    From 27–29 July 2025, governments and other stakeholders from across the world will convene in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the United Nations Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4). The event aims to assess progress on transforming food systems…

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  • Determinants of climate change risk perception in Latin America

    Determinants of climate change risk perception in Latin America

    Participants

    In order to assess the association between individual-level factors and climate change risk perception across Latin America, we leveraged a unique dataset collected by Netquest, a polling company, during the period of October to…

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  • Even without catching COVID, the pandemic may have quietly aged your brain

    Even without catching COVID, the pandemic may have quietly aged your brain

    A new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that the Covid-19 pandemic may have accelerated people’s brain health, even if they were never infected with the virus.

    What does it mean to grow older, not just in years, but…

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