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Bats are important for US agriculture, helping farmers by providing the equivalent of $3.7 billion worth of insect pest control

The problems of the world, including climate change, ongoing war, the COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging diseases, human rights abuses and gross inequality, are spilling well beyond national borders and the ability — or willingness — of individual countries to manage them.

"Mountains of calorie-rich (and often nutritionally poor) food and . . . sugary beverages are readily available"

Researchers from Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University revealed in a study conducted at the Population Research Health Institute (PHRI) that persons who do not consume enough of six important nutrients collectively had a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). Read further on Dynamite News:

‘AI methods afford us the opportunity to vastly increase the rate at which we discover new antibiotics’

AI used to discover abaucin, an effective drug against A baumannii, bacteria that can cause dangerous infections

Dena Zeraatkar and Tyler Pitre of McMaster University have found that the medicine solriamfetol is the most effective therapy for excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in persons with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Read further on Dynamite News:

Describe shyness. According to research, shyness is characterised by dread and anxiety in the face of social novelty and/or social judgement. Read further on Dynamite News.

Santiago (AFP) - Two members of a scientific panel that investigated the mysterious death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda told AFP that they could not determine whether or not the Chilean poet and diplomat had been poisoned.