The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, the largest and most comprehensive campus in the State University of New York. UB’s nearly 30,000 students pursue their academic interests through more than 300 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. Founded in 1846, the University at Buffalo is a member of the Association of American Universities.
The usefulness of a drug is typically measured by its active ingredient. But traditional Chinese medicine shows that there’s more to healing than using the right chemical.
Los grupos de salud y apoyo del VIH ofrecieron pruebas de COVID-19 y otros servicios comunitarios durante la pandemia
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Las comunidades gay en los EEUU estaban bien equipadas para dar servicios sociales y de salud al principio de la pandemia actual, cuando la respuesta COVID-19 del gobierno se retrasó.
The meditation market is expected to grow to over $2 billion by 2022.
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Roundup may be taking a beating in the US, where three juries have concluded that it gave plaintiffs cancer, but it’s still widely used around the globe.
HIV health and support groups offered COVID-19 testing and other community services during the pandemic.
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Having survived the HIV/AIDS pandemic, gay communities in the US were well equipped to get residents health and social services early in the pandemic, when the government’s COVID-19 response lagged.
Surface parking in downtown San Jose, California.
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When Buffalo, New York, changed its zoning code so that developers no longer had to provide specified amounts of parking, space was freed up for public transit and people.
Seattle police officers deploy pepper spray as they clash with protesters in Seattle, Washington, on July 25, 2020.
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New research confirms that unfair police treatment is psychologically damaging and that the consequences are decidedly worse for certain racial and ethnic groups.
This skull, found in France, was among the first fossils to be recognized as belonging to our own species.
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Al perdernos las reuniones y las observaciones casuales que despiertan nuestra curiosidad y sacuden esos momentos de “¡ajá!”, las nuevas ideas, grandes y pequeñas, quedan sin descubrir.
Toilets in space are a bit more complicated than those on Earth.
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Going to the bathroom is much more complicated in space without any gravity. To solve this problem of tricky orbital potty breaks, NASA builds special toilets that work without gravity.
Gene-based vaccines had never been approved for humans before the coronavirus pandemic.
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The coronavirus pandemic has driven a lot of scientific progress in the past year. But just as some of the social changes are likely here to stay, so are some medical innovations.
In our final days, relationships can be resurrected, love revived and forgiveness achieved.
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Quand nous sommes privés des rencontres et des moments d’observation qui titillent notre curiosité, de nouvelles idées, petites ou grandes, restent dans les limbes.
En facilitant les rencontres aléatoires et les échanges à bâtons rompus, les cafés nourrissent la créativité.
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En passant à côté de rencontres imprévues et d’observations qui piquent notre curiosité et font naître des déclics, des idées, petites ou grandes, ne verront jamais le jour.
Open to eat indoors – but will you?
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By missing out on chance encounters and observations that jolt ‘a-ha’ moments, new ideas, big and small, go undiscovered.
W.E.B. Du Bois in his office at The Crisis in New York City, 1925.
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As editor of the magazine for 24 years, Du Bois featured articles about biology, evolution, archaeology in Africa and more to refute the rampant scientific racism of the early 20th century.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that undocumented immigrants cause more crime, but new research suggests the opposite might be true.
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Statistical models debunk claims by Trump and others that undocumented immigration into the U.S. increases crime, building on a litany of past research.
Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen announced a settlement between the Justice Department and opioid maker Purdue on Oct. 21.
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