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A Change In Climate May Mean More Than Creaky Joints: Symposium At ESA Annual Meeting Will Examine Linkages Between Ecological Change And Human Health

...e mice means another Hantavirusoutbreak. From the ivory tower to everyday conversation, a scientific symposium convenesto discuss the effect of ecological change on human health at the ESA AnnualMeeting in Baltimore, Maryland, from August 2-6. This year's meeting is beingheld in conjunction with the Amer...

NYU Anthropologist Says Female Statuettes From Ice-Age Europe Were Carved To Protect Health Of Pregnant Mothers

...sdifficult to work with stone tools. In contrast, ivory is superbly suited forvolumetric sculpting once it dries out and begins to divide along its internalconcentric structure. The absence of faces on most of the statuettes is not a matter of omission orneglect. In fact, the featureless faces were caref...

New technique uses household humidifier to create nanocomposite materials

... reminiscent of decorative, hand-carved concentric ivory spheres from China. The nested nanoballs could prove useful as molecular sieves....

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